Demonstrations outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day of arguments in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, challenging a Mississippi law enacted in 2018 that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, on December 1, 2021. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
The next possible front in the abortion wars reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday with Arizona seeking to enforce its prohibition on abortions because of genetic abnormalities.
The state filed an application for a partial stay of a district court order blocking the law’s provisions that allow prosecutions against providers who knowingly terminate pregnancies because of genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome.
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