In a blockbuster announcement Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take a case that could end Roe v. Wade’s guarantee of abortion rights throughout the United States. Since September, the court has been considering whether to take Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to Mississippi’s law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. Some observers thought that because the Supreme Court did not take action on the petition for eight months, the new six-justice conservative majority had no interest in wading into the abortion wars. Apparently, they were wrong.