Family Research Council Files Amicus Brief at US Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Family Research Council filed an amicus brief yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in one of the most significant challenges to the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. The Court’s decision in Roe held that a woman had a constitutional right to abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment, striking down many state abortion restrictions and severely limiting the extent to which states could write their own abortion laws.

In the brief, we argue: “In Casey, a plurality recognized that Roe and its trimester framework were unworkable and introduced a new ‘controlling standard’ that was intended to provide judges clarity in deciding abortion cases. But Casey only made things worse. Created ‘out of whole cloth,’ Casey‘s undue-burden standard provided no rule of law, instead forcing judges to evaluate abortion regulations on the basis of their own personal value judgments. And its viability rule relied on ever-changing medical technology, while preventing states from acting upon their important interests in protecting nascent life and beyond.”… (Excerpts from the Family Research Council)