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Louisiana AG Files Legal Brief in Support of Law Prohibiting Eugenic Abortions
May 14, 2021
Attorney General Jeff Landry has joined Louisiana to a coalition of 22 states in filing a legal brief at the United States Supreme Court in support of an Arkansas law that would prohibit abortions solely based on a prenatal Down Syndrome diagnosis.
“An extra chromosome should not and must not mean a death sentence,” said Attorney General Landry. “I stand firm in supporting the rule of law and defending the unborn from eugenic abortion.”
Attorney General Landry and his colleagues noted in their brief, “people with Down Syndrome add unique joy, beauty, and diversity to our society; yet the abortion of children with Down Syndrome approaches genocidal levels, threatening the Down Syndrome community with complete elimination.”
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May 12, 2021
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Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton tore into Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra Wednesday for “trying to ignore” a U.S. law banning partial-birth abortion.
“It’s no surprise that a pro-abortion radical like Xavier Becerra is trying to ignore the law banning partial-birth abortion he voted against it when he was a congressman,” Cotton told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“But that shouldn’t matter,” the senator said. “Becerra is an officer of the United States government. He doesn’t get to pick and choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore.”
Just over a century ago, the United States government – in the midst of World War I – undertook unprecedented efforts to control and restrict what it saw as “unpatriotic” speech through passage of the Sedition Act of 1918, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16 of that year.
The restrictions – and the courts’ reactions to them – mark an important landmark in testing the limits of the First Amendment, and the beginnings of the current understanding of free speech in the U.S.
As a scholar and lawyer focused on freedom of speech in the U.S., I have studied the federal government’s attempts to restrict speech, including during World War I, and the legal cases that challenged them. These cases helped form the modern idea of the First Amendment right of free speech. But the conflict between patriotism and free expression continues to be an issue a century later.