Wed Dec 8, 2021 – 4:38 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Among the voices urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a half-century of abortion precedent was Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, who took the opportunity to deliver floor remarks calling the case an opportunity to both “modernize” America’s abortion laws and bring them more in line with those of the rest of the civilized world.
“When our Founding Fathers laid out the Declaration of Independence, they talked about Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Daines said on November 30, the day before the nation’s highest court began hearing oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. “You can’t have liberty and the pursuit of happiness without first having that unalienable right given by God, and that is the right to life.”
Dobbs concerns Mississippi’s HB 1510 law banning abortions from being committed past 15 weeks for any reason other than physical medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities. After its enactment in 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed it unconstitutional because of an “unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 ruling which imposed on all 50 states a “right”
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