U.S. Supreme Court

The fate of abortion in the U.S. appears to be on shaky ground as a divided Supreme Court weighs a Mississippi law. A decision in the case is expected by summer.

At issue is whether to reverse the court's nearly half-century-old decision, Roe v. Wade, and subsequent decisions declaring that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

The justices upheld the decision of an appellate court that said a circuit judge improperly applied a pre-1999 version of a state punitive damages law to the case.

Restrictive abortion laws across the South mean more women are traveling across state lines to find safe services.

The high court will take up a legal battle about how much money Florida’s Medicaid program should be able to recoup from a legal settlement stemming from an accident that left a girl in a vegetative state.

By a 5-4 vote, the court left in place the nationwide moratorium on evictions put in place by the CDC that was challenged by the Alabama Association of Realtors.

The poll comes weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving a currently blocked Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks.

Attorney General Ashley Moody says her office respects “the ruling and authority of the court” but defended her involvement in the suit, saying “my office will always push back on any federal overreach."

The 7-2 decision threw out the challenge to the law on grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision.

The state law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The lower courts blocked its enforcement, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.