Mississippi asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn abortion rights landmark

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The court in its 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, reaffirmed the ruling and prohibited laws that place an "undue burden" on a woman's ability to obtain an abortion.
45% : Mississippi is seeking to revive its Republican-backed law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
42% : Roe v. Wade said that states could not ban abortion before the viability of the fetus outside the womb, which is generally viewed by doctors as between 24 and 28 weeks.
41% : The Mississippi law would ban abortion much earlier than that.
39% : Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, said in papers to be filed with the court that the Roe v. Wade ruling and a subsequent 1992 decision that affirmed it were both "egregiously wrong" and that state legislatures should have more leeway to restrict abortion.
39% : The filing marked the first time Mississippi made overturning Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide and ended an era in which some states had banned the procedure, a central part of its argument.
31% : Abortion remains a divisive issue in the United States, as in many countries.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.