The United States Supreme Court is taking up a case that could reverse decades of access to abortion in the US, in what women’s rights advocates are calling a potential turning point in the country’s history. The nation’s top court began hearing oral arguments on Wednesday on whether a Mississippi state law enacted in 2018 that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington DC.
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