Chief Justice Roberts strikes own path on abortion ruling

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo Chief Justice John Roberts sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 ...Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. paved his own path in Friday’s abortion ruling, siding with his fellow GOP-appointed justices in backing Mississippi’s 15-week ban as constitutional, but saying he would not have gone as far as his colleagues did in unraveling all of Roe v. Wade.

He said the “viability” standard Roe, and a later 1992 case, set for when abortion rights are no longer sacrosanct never made sense, and Mississippi had made the case that a 15-week…