Republicans are asking the Supreme Court if the case “should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.”
released Thursday, 205 Republican lawmakers, including 39 senators, asked the Supreme Court to consider whether the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case protecting the right to an abortion, “should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.” Additionally, they are asking the justices to“The court has exercised that judgment to overrule precedent in over 230 cases throughout its history,” the lawmakers wrote.
Those in favor of keeping abortion legal say the ruling is designed to make it harder for women to access the procedure while proponents of the law say it’s in the best interest of women’s health who chose to have an abortion.said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, in a statement. For the Republicans who are set to prove to their base the importance of abortion legislation, the brief couldn’t be any clearer. “Roe’s jurisprudence has been haphazard from the beginning,” reads the brief.
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