Arguments in a case challenging the validity of the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 that access to abortion is a constitutional right are scheduled to take place on Dec. 1. The nation’s top court will hear that day from lawyers on both sides in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the court announced Monday. Justices agreed in May to hear the case but it had not been known before when the case would be heard. Mississippi in 2018 enacted a law barring abortions after 15 weeks outside of medical emergencies or the discovery of a severe abnormality in the unborn baby. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, an Obama nominee, struck down the law, finding “it is a facially unconstitutional ban on abortions prior to viability.” A trio of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges later upheld his ruling. “In an unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s abortion …