Here Are the 207 Members of Congress Who Just Asked SCOTUS to Consider Overruling Roe v. Wade
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A coalition of 207 members of Congress on Thursday filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court asking it to “reconsider” two landmark abortion cases—Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Se. PA v. Casey—in an apparent effort to crush reproductive rights at the federal level. The brief, which is hinged on a battle over a Louisiana law that would require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles, attempts to be large enough in scope that it suggests a reconsideration of Roe and Casey should be, “if appropriate, overruled”:
Finally, Amici respectfully suggest that the Fifth Circuit’s struggle to define the appropriate “large fraction” or determine what “burden” on abortion access is “undue” illustrates the unworkability of the “right to abortion” found in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and the need for the Court to again take up the issue of whether Roe and Casey should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.
The brief situates itself in June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, a 2014 case in which the Shreveport clinic June Medical challenged the Louisiana admitting privileges law, arguing that it would place an “an unconstitutional undue burden on the right to choose abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
After years of bouncing through the courts, last September Texas’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeals declared Louisiana’s law constitutional, and denied June’s petition for a rehearing. It will now be heard in March by an increasingly conservative SCOTUS, backed today by an increasingly conservative Congress. Here are the lawmakers, most of them men—including two House Democrats, Illinois’s Daniel Lipinski and Minnesota’s Collin Peterson—who signed their names to the amicus brief. These are 207 lawmakers who do not support your right to make decisions about your own body. Vote them out, and read the full amicus brief here.
U.S. Senate
John Kennedy (LA)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
John Barrasso (WY)
Roy Blunt (MO)
John Boozman (AR)
Mike Braun (IN)
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