3 GOP Senators Urge Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Missouri, Texas, Utah | July 27, 2021
Three Republican senators have filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to return the power to make legislation concerning abortion to the states by overturning the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, The Epoch Times reported.
Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, and Ted Cruz of Texas, said in the brief on Monday that Roe v. Wade’s approach “proved controversial, and conceptually flawed, from the outset,” while the Parenthood v. Casey decision’s undue burden standard is ambiguous and has made it difficult for courts to consistently apply it, calling it “too subjective” and is “unworkable and unpredictable.”
Roe v. Wade prohibits states from banning abortions prior to when the fetus is deemed “viable,” with the ruling asserting that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion in the “pre-viability” period and that state laws dealing with abortion would have to pass the strict scrutiny standard, the highest and most stringent standard of judicial review that courts use to determine the constitutionality of laws….
(Excerpts from Newsmax)