A Jackson-based conservative think-tank filed a lawsuit Monday that aims to clear up a bizarre legal conundrum in Mississippi: that abortion is technically both legal and illegal at the same time.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today November 14, 2022 The Mississippi Center for Public Policy filed a lawsuit Monday in an attempt to get the state Supreme Court to reverse its 1998 ruling that said the Mississippi Constitution provides a right to an abortion. That decades-old ruling — Pro Choice Mississippi v. Fordice — has been in conflict with two new state laws that took effect this summer after the U.S. Supreme overturned Roe v.
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