Chip SomodevillaJulie Rikelman, Senior Litigation Director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, who represents the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, speaks to the media Wednesday after arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, in Washington, DC. Experts believe this could be the most important abortion case in decades and could undermine or overturn Roe v. Wade.
Arguing her case before the Supreme Court, Julie Rikelman, representing the abortion clinic challenging the Mississippi law, framed adoption as a burdensome and unrealistic option — but Justice Barrett offered another perspective