More than 100 social science experts, including Dr. Kari White, the lead investigator of the Mississippi Reproductive Health Access Project, filed an amicus brief led by experts at UC San Francisco and the University of Texas urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reject Mississippi’s ban on abortions past 15 weeks. The law will be reviewed in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, which will be heard on Dec. 1, 2021.
The brief, which cites a recently published research brief, explains what is known about why women seek abortions past 15 weeks, which is when the Mississippi law would ban them, how upholding this law would deny access to abortion care in half the United States, and the long-term harm women experience when they are denied an abortion.