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39 Republican senators and 168 representatives signed an amicus brief on Thursday asking the Supreme Court to revisit and potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, which protects the right for women to seek an abortion.
The big picture: Roe v. Wade has, since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 1973, served as a barrier against Republicans who have sought to restrict reproductive rights. But with the court's conservative majority and Trump in the Oval Office, right-leaning lawmakers have been testing the limits of the law.
A number of states have issued time restrictions on abortions in recent months, usually limiting the procedure to the first trimester of pregnancy.
Many cases are being challenged in the courts, with reproductive-rights advocates arguing that curbing the procedure is against Constitutional protections.
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global1
(25,285 posts)Happy New Year!!!!!! (sarcasm)
nykym
(3,063 posts)naming all repug who support this piece of crap amicus brief needs to be done nation wide.
Expose them as the scum they are.
spanone
(135,902 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,643 posts)two steps back"?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)sacto95834
(393 posts)okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)are really just Republican-lites" fiction he sells. Given the 45+ years of this issue, he must have come up with some rationalization long ago, at least one that suits him.
Not to worry, of course. As he explains, when he's president he'll "appoint some justices" too. Good ones, not those Dem/Repub Gorsuch and Kavanaugh types President Clinton and a Democratic-controlled senate would have.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Lipinski is my current Representative. Many of us are working to send him back to private life.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Patriarchal, entitled, arrogant, ignorant males and gender disrespecting females can eat excrement and expire!
Yeah, Im done with the vomitus anti-choice/anti-women bullshit.
sinkingfeeling
(51,482 posts)favor of ending Roe vs. Wade, from a state having about 26% of its children going hungry and living in poverty.
Of course, they fully support bombing 'others' or just starving them to death.
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)For vast swaths of the voting populace, ending abortion is the only reason to vote for the Repukes.