OVER 200 LAWMAKERS URGE SUPREME COURT TO RECONSIDER ROE VS. WADE

More than 200 lawmakers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overturning Roe vs. Wade, a 1974 landmark decision to legalize abortion, in a brief supporting a Louisiana law that would severely limit access to the procedure.

The 207 members of Congress — 39 senators and 168 House members from 38 states — filed the brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Louisiana law when it hears the case in March, stating they “have a special interest in the correct interpretation, application and enforcement of health and safety standards for elective abortion by the people of the states they represent.”

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