More than 200 Republican members of Congress and two Democrats filed an amicus curiae brief on Thursday urging the Supreme Court to overturn its decision in the landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
The brief argues that the history of the abortion case decisions including Roe, Casey and Hellerstedt, create an “unworkable standard.” The amicus brief points to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s struggle to define the appropriate standard as the reason for reconsidering precedent.
