Two state House members join call to 'reconsider' Roe v. Wade
Two members of Congress from Washington, Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse, have joined more than 200 GOP colleagues in a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to "reconsider" its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal across America.
The amicus (friend of the court) brief, signed by 205 Republicans and two Democrats, comes as the high court takes up its first abortion-related case since two Trump appointees, Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, took their seats on the bench.
A majority of Republicans in Congress, 39 of 53 GOP senators and 168 of 199 House members, signed the brief. The two Democrats are Reps. Dan Lininski of Illinois and Collin Peterson of Minnesota. A third Republican from Washington, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, did not sign the brief. She faces a difficult reelection race this year.
The brief argued there is a "need for the Court to again take up the issue of whether Roe and Casey should be reconsidered and if appropriate overruled." The 1992 Planned Parenthood vs. Casey decision, work of three centrist justices, upheld and affirmed the right of a woman to choose..
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