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More than 200 members of Congress ask Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade in latest abortion case

[Washington Examiner] More than 200 members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, when it takes up a major abortion case this spring.

The request was in an amicus brief filed Thursday in support of a Louisiana law the Supreme Court is reviewing that requires doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.

A total of 207 lawmakers agreed that the Louisiana law should be allowed to stand, but also said the high court's decisions on Roe and its 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, which allowed states to regulate abortion, "should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled."

The 39 Republicans in the Senate and 168 lawmakers in the House, all of them Republicans except for Democrats Dan Lipinski and Collin Peterson, want the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe and Casey. If Roe were to be overturned, then decisions about the legalization of abortion would fall to states, some of whom are already poised to make abortion illegal.

Abortion rights groups have been concerned about the weakening or overturning of Roe since the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed two of President Trump's Supreme Court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. The Roe decision legalized abortion across the United States until fetal viability, which is generally understood to be about 24 weeks into a pregnancy.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-05 01:08|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 It wasn't their authority. It was a state's authority. SCOTUS assumed powers and purview that was never intended for the federal judiciary to have without an Article V amendment. It violated the separation of powers between the federal and state governments.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

But, where's the aggrandizement of power in that?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-05 02:44|| 2020-01-05 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 If abortion is so popular and wonderful, why is there such a phobia about allowing more than 9 people to vote on it?

Posted by Tom 2020-01-05 15:26|| 2020-01-05 15:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Never should have gone to SCOTUS. If it had been left up to the states, we'd never have wasted so much time and breath arguing about it as a nation.

Different strokes for diff'rent states... and those who favor abortion rights would have fought for them in the only appropriate venue: elections at the state level.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 15:36|| 2020-01-05 15:36|| Front Page Top

#4 It went to SCOTUS as a wink and nod to the supporters. Some States would've rejected it. The babykillers wanted a nationwide rule

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-05 17:14|| 2020-01-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Now as a result of Roe, and that other disastrously stupid SCOTUS decision from the same era, Bakke, we have these BS concepts that have only created confusion and made Americans mistrust their rulers and hate each other. "Right to privacy," "diversity."

What mischief was made by that Court. Better to scrap both and start over, with elections. If the good people of State X or Y want abortion on demand and race-based college admissions, let them have it. If not, then strike them down.

But don't leave it up to unelected judges torturing logic and the English language to come up with bullshit concepts that have no foundation in our laws or legal traditions.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 18:30|| 2020-01-05 18:30|| Front Page Top

#6 If I were given the opportunity to reverse 5 Supreme Court decisions, this would not be on that list. I agree it was wrongly decided and bad policy, but just not the hill to die on this year.

Posted by Iblis 2020-01-05 19:37|| 2020-01-05 19:37|| Front Page Top

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