We are about to lose the legal right to abortion.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on December 1 in the first direct challenge to Roe v. Wade in almost fifty years. The conservative majority has indicated that they support upholding a Mississippi law that bans abortion starting at fifteen weeks of pregnancy, a ruling that could undermine and possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.

We have to wait months to find out if our rights to bodily autonomy will be stripped away by nine unelected members of the court, but the prognosis doesn’t look good. The fact that the Supreme Court took up the case at all is a bad sign, especially because not a single federal court has ever upheld a pre-viability abortion ban like the one being considered in Mississippi.