WASHINGTON — The new Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks, and the Supreme Court’s decision not to block it, has already heated up the abortion debate into an election issue for 2022 congressional races.
And more conflict is coming. The conservative-led Supreme Court is scheduled this fall to hear a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans most abortions there after 15 weeks, another challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that found a constitutional right to abortion.
A decision in that case could impact other states, including North Carolina, that have or may attempt to impose limits on abortions at earlier and earlier points during pregnancy. The court’s decision is expected in the summer of 2022, just months before congressional midterm elections in November.
