That’s because Washington state voters have already approved stringent protections for abortion rights. Those state-level protections would remain in place even if the court upholds the Mississippi law, which seeks to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, said Patricia Kuszler, a law professor at the University of Washington.
“For states that have a viability standard, like what we have here in Washington, that would not be taken away by what the Supreme Court does,” Kuszler said.
Kuszler is referring to the Washington state law that protects a person’s right to terminate a pregnancy any time before the fetus is considered viable, which is when it can survive outside the womb.
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