Mississippi asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade - NBC News
When the state asked the court to take up its appeal last year, it said hearing the issues raised in its appeal "do not require the court to overturn either Roe or Casey," adding: "They merely ask the court to reconcile a conflict in its own precedents." But in Thursday's filing, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the Roe and Casey rulings were "egregiously wrong."Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said the state's brief "reveals the extreme and regressive strategy, not just of this law, but of the avalanche of abortion bans and restrictions that are being passed across the country.""Their goal is for the Supreme Court to take away our right to control our own bodies and our own futures — not just in Mississippi, but everywhere," she said