Virginia’s new Republican attorney general is urging the Supreme Court to overturn its 49-year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade and return regulation of abortion to the states, as observers await the court’s imminent decision in a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law.
Against this backdrop, the Supreme Court has denied requests to stay the Texas “heartbeat” law, which bans abortions after six weeks of gestation and crowdsources the law’s enforcement to members of the public.
