| Supreme Court takes up a major case on abortion rights; Covid-19 cases are down in India, but deaths are rising. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gregory Svirnovskiy. | | | | | | | The case that could upend Roe v. Wade | | | | | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images | | - The Supreme Court will soon hear a case on abortion rights, energizing activists on both sides of the issue in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. [Associated Press / Mark Sherman]
- The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, involves a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks. It contradicts the viability standard established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, which gives most women at least 22 weeks to terminate a pregnancy. [CNBC / Tucker Higgins]
- The law has lost every court challenge so far. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has appealed each time, hoping to take the case to the Supreme Court. [Wall Street Journal / Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin]
- One judge noted the law's apparent intent: "The state chose to pass a law it knew was unconstitutional to endorse a decades-long campaign, fueled by national interest groups, to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade," Judge Carlton Reeves wrote in his 2018 decision on the case. [New York Times / Adam Liptak]
- This will be the first case on abortion the Supreme Court has taken up since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined late last year after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The makeup of the Court now makes it more likely to curtail abortion rights. [Washington Post / Mary Ziegler]
| | | Over 4,000 people died from Covid-19 in India on Monday. Experts think that's an undercount. | | - Confirmed Covid-19 cases are leveling off in India. New infections dipped below 300,000 for the first time in weeks Monday and now stand at 260,000. But the country reported a record 4,329 Covid-19 deaths on Monday. [Associated Press]
- That's partially due to the approximately two-week lag of the death curve relative to new Covid-19 cases. They peaked in India 12 days ago. Deaths are now following. But daily numbers can't be taken at face value; they're often shaped backlogs and undercounts. [Indian Express / Amitabh Sinha]
- Experts aren't even sure that the virus has peaked in India. They worry about variants, about rising caseloads in certain states. And high positivity rates, currently at 20 percent, show that too few tests are being run. [Reuters]
- This week, India became the second country in the world to pass 25 million confirmed Covid-19 cases, after the US did so in January. [Al Jazeera]
- India was hit with another socioeconomic disaster Tuesday. Cyclone Taukte, a brutal storm with winds of up to 130 miles per hour, forced the evacuations of more than 200,000 people from their homes in Gujarat. Covid-19 patients in coastal hospitals were moved to open spots further inland. [NPR / Lauren Frayer]
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