Six joining effort to restrict abortion rights
Most of the
Others signing a brief Thursday that urges justices to uphold a
Roughly 80% of the
"The court has exercised that judgment to overrule precedent in more than 230 cases throughout its history," the lawmakers wrote. "Forty-six years after Roe was decided, it remains a radically unsettled precedent: Two of the seven justices who originally joined the majority subsequently repudiated it in whole or in part, and virtually every abortion decision since has been closely divided."
Planned Parenthood Illinois Action denounced the move.
"We've seen 26 abortion bans pass in 2019 and we're already seeing people having to cross state lines or wait long times just to access basic healthcare," said
The court is expected to hear the June Medical case this spring, and a ruling is likely in June. At issue is a 2014 Louisiana law, passed but never enacted, that requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. Only one doctor in
The case is certain to inject the divisive politics of abortion into the 2020 presidential race. President
The sheer number of those signing the brief suggests the importance that
But Sen.
The brief was drafted by
"No one is going into this case with an expectation that Roe v. Wade will be overturned," Glenn said. "However, the court has the opportunity to reconsider the precedent that has gotten us to where we're at, and that's all that the members of
Democratic lawmakers have filed their own amicus brief calling for the
"Reproductive rights and the ability to make our own health care decisions are fundamental to the freedoms we have under the
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