Roberts, Kavanaugh Control Fate of Supreme Court Abortion Case

All eyes will be on Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh next term when the U.S. Supreme Court considers an abortion dispute that could limit or even overturn a half-century of precedent dating back to the landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade.

At issue is the constitutionality of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, which the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said implicated the “central holding of Roe” and therefore couldn’t stand.

Advocates on the left see the case as an existential threat to a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy, while those on ...