News Analysis Mississippi’s recent call for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion lawful throughout the United States, has been warmly received by pro-life activists who say it could be the vehicle the court uses to finally right what they consider to be an egregious wrong. Mississippi’s petition for review says the caselaw is wrong and notes that the state enacted H.B. 1510, the Gestational Age Act in 2018, which it says “protects the health of mothers, the dignity of unborn children, and the integrity of the medical profession and society by allowing abortions after 15 weeks’ gestational age only in medical emergencies or for severe fetal abnormality.” The Magnolia State statute has been enjoined by the federal courts, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court. Lynn Fitch, the state’s Republican attorney general, filed a brief with the court July 22 arguing …