{"id":216207,"date":"2020-01-03T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=216207"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:44:10","slug":"case-overturn-roe-wade-abortion-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/case-overturn-roe-wade-abortion-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this case be the one to overturn Roe v. Wade? The abortion industry thinks so."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last October, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case<\/a> regarding Louisiana’s admitting privileges law. The case, June Medical Services v. Gee<\/a>, takes aim at The Unsafe Abortion Act, and thanks to a recent brief filed by over 200 Congressional lawmakers, has gotten attention from the abortion industry, which is now panicking.<\/p>\n

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise led 166 House Republicans and 39 Senate Republicans, as well as two Democrats, in filing an amicus brief<\/a> in support of the pro-life law, arguing that the court must not only uphold the law, but also to “provide clarity regarding the bounds of the Government’s ability to safeguard the lives and health of their citizens.” Previously, hundreds of attorneys who have had abortions filed a brief<\/a> asking the Court to overturn the law. Yet it’s this<\/em> brief that’s raising eyebrows, as the abortion industry worries that it could mean the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, thanks to this portion of the brief (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

With regard to June Medical\u2019s question presented, Amici submit that while the Fifth Circuit understandably struggled with the meaning of the \u201cundue burden\u201d standard put forth in Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), the court appropriately distinguished Hellerstedt on a record that reflected \u201cgreatly dissimilar\u201d facts and a demonstrable absence of burden on abortion access due to the operation of Louisiana Act 620.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, Amici respectfully suggest that the Fifth Circuit\u2019s struggle to define the appropriate \u201clarge fraction\u201d or determine what \u201cburden\u201d on abortion access is \u201cundue\u201d illustrates the unworkability of the \u201cright to abortion\u201d found in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and the need for the Court to again take up the issue of whether Roe and Casey should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, as well as others in the abortion industry, didn’t waste any time sounding the alarm:<\/p>\n

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Anti-abortion politicians are using every trick in the book to ban abortion. Asking the Supreme Court to reconsider overturning Roe is an assault on our basic rights, plain and simple. <\/p>\n

Abortion is safe and legal, and we're doing everything we can to keep it that way. https:\/\/t.co\/7rATmkTbxd<\/a><\/p>\n

— Alexis McGill Johnson (@alexismcgill) January 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n