SC governor Henry McMaster leads GOP govs, lawmakers in supporting Mississippi anti-abortion law

WYFF ^ | 7/30/2021 | AP

[Right Wing Vegan]

COLUMBIA, S.C. —

A dozen Republican governors and more than 200 GOP members of Congress are wading into a court fight over a Mississippi law to restrict abortion, the outcome of which could have implications for similar measures across the country.

On Thursday, attorneys for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, leader of the gubernatorial effort, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Mississippi, which wants to enforce its 2018 law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Mississippi’s Republican attorney general filed papers last week asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic is challenging the legality of the 2018 law, arguing that it unconstitutionally restricts access to abortion. The nation’s high court will likely hear that case in the fall, with a decision probably in 2022.

Arguing the issue of abortion is best left to the states, rather than federal-level entities, the attorneys for the dozen Republican governors wrote that citizens have the ability to vote out state lawmakers with whom they disagree over abortion policies.

[thewiseone]

Im from SC live here...we call him McTaxter.....he is a slimy POS gov. But I back him on this

[Jacquerie]

About thirty years ago I read the entire Roe decision. Whatever one’s thinking or emotions on the matter, Harry Blackmun’s constitutional reasoning was pure nonsense and an insult to a free people.