Each of Alabama’s six Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives signed onto an Amicus Brief that calls on the Supreme Court to change its stance on the legal basis for abortion in America.
The members, Reps. Mo Brooks (AL-05), Robert Aderholt (AL-04), Mike Rogers (AL-03), Gary Palmer (AL-06), Martha Roby (AL-02) and Bradley Byrne (AL-01), have all accrued strong pro-life voting records while in Congress.
The legal filing comes on the heels of the court agreeing to take up an abortion law from Lousiana that requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
The signers of the brief believe that the constant courthouse struggles over the legal groundwork for abortion in America “illustrates the unworkability of the ‘right to abortion’ found in Roe and the need for the Court to take up the issue of whether Roe and Casey should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.”
The Louisiana law will be the first major abortion case to come in front of the Supreme Court since Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were appointed by President Trump.
Henry Thornton is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can contact him by email: [email protected] or on Twitter @HenryThornton95.
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