By: Kristin Wells
OKLAHOMA CITY -
Oklahoma’s new Attorney General John O’Connor has filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision.
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision, rules that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion.
O’Connor wants Roe v. Wade and its follow-up case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey to be overturned.
Attorneys General from 24 states signed onto the brief, which claims that Roe v. Wade is not grounded in the Constitution and has distorted other areas of the law.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains CEO and interim president Emily Wales issued a statement following the brief.
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Halt to abortions during pandemic led S.D. women to get procedure in other states
Advocates for abortion rights say some South Dakota women also turned to potentially dangerous alternatives in an attempt to terminate their pregnancies in 2020.
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Gala Byrun, of Sioux Falls, volunteered in mid-July 2021 for 40 Days for Life, a national pro-life campaign that enlists volunteers to station outside of Planned Parenthood facilities to give women other options to abortion. (Danielle Ferguson / South Dakota News Watch)
A temporary halt to abortions in 2020 at the only clinic in South Dakota where the procedures take place led to a big drop in abortions performed in the state last year, but it did not prevent women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies from doing so elsewhere.
The amicus or friend-of-the-court brief also asks the court overrule Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 high court ruling that upheld the constitutional right to abortion, but allowed states to regulate the practice to protect the health of the mother and the life of the fetus.
The states argue in the 44-page brief that the Supreme Court has advanced a constitutional law of abortion for half a century that no one can describe with any certainty. Because the purported right to abortion lacks any textual or historical foundation, it is defined only by the court s constantly changing opinions, they wrote. This challenge to Mississippi s 15-week law presents the court with an opportunity to remedy those problems by reconsidering and overruling their source Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. Unlawful from the day each was decided, both have kept Amici States in continual litigation as the Court changes the constitutional test and rules, accord
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Reynolds among Republicans urging Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade
Governor Reynolds. (file photo)
Governor Kim Reynolds is among a dozen GOP governors who’re urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn previous rulings on abortion and give states the authority to regulate the procedure.
Reynolds signed onto a legal brief that argues the court’s 1973 Roe v Wade decision is an “unwarranted intrusion” on states’ rights. Reynolds also released a written statement, saying the ruling has “stymied” state efforts to enact abortion restrictions. An Iowa-based spokesperson for Planned Parenthood said it’s clear the governor’s goal is to ban abortions in Iowa.