More than 200 Republican lawmakers on Thursday petitioned the lopsidedly conservative Supreme Court to overturn the monumental Roe v. Wade decision that effectively legalized abortion in the United States.
In an Amicus Curiae filed this week in the pending case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, 228 GOP members from both chambers of Congress — including members of both the House and Senate leadership teams, such as Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Sen. Mitch McConnell — threw their considerable weight behind the state of Mississippi's ongoing effort to enact legislation that would criminalize terminating almost all pregnancies after just 15 weeks, and without exceptions for women who have been raped or subjected to incest. Two lower courts had previously blocked the 2018 law from being applied, resulting in the state's petition to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case this past May.
