4:40
- ABC News
- June 29, 2020
WH, Republicans attack SCOTUS abortion decision
The Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana abortion law on Monday.
4:40
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s criticism was pointedly aimed at Chief Justice Roberts, who voted along with the four liberal judges on the court to overturn the Louisiana law. Rubio said Roberts voted to “uphold a precedent that just four years ago he believed the court decided incorrectly.”
“Not only does it make no sense, it is yet another example of #SCOTUS making law, as opposed to applying law,which is their rightful constitutional role,” Rubio tweeted.
And Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., also took aim at Roberts.
“Americans hoping for justice for women and unborn babies were let down again today by John Roberts,” Cotton said in a statement. “The Chief Justice may believe that he’s protecting the institutional integrity of the Court, but in reality his politicized decision-making only undermines it.”
Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana where the case was based, called the ruling \"unfortunate\" and voiced his frustration in a video he tweeted Monday morning.
Extremely troubling that #SCOTUS strikes down a Louisiana law that fundamentally protects women.
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) June 29, 2020
The abortion industry insists that baseline standards of medical care don’t apply to them. They're wrong. #ProLife pic.twitter.com/b1tKUARTHn
“We can't deny our duty to protect all lives no matter how loudly the abortion industry insists that baseline standards of medical care don't apply to them,” Kennedy said in the video.
But some prominent Senate Democrats, some of whom are eying a potential Vice Presidential role alongside presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, have declared the ruling a victory in the fight for reproductive health care rights.
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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., a favorite to share the Biden ticket, called the ruling a “huge victory for reproductive rights” in a tweet Monday.
A huge victory for reproductive rights. Abortion is a fundamental issue of justice in America and we will never stop fighting for it. https://t.co/UggEeWp9Ys
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 29, 2020
“Abortion is a fundamental issue of justice in America and we will never stop fighting for it,” Harris tweeted.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who just recently stepped aside in the race to join Biden in his quest for the White House, called the decision “the right thing to do” but, like several of her Democratic colleagues, urged Congress to work to work further abortion protections into law.
“Next up: we need to codify Roe v. Wade and make it a federal law,” Klobuchar tweeted.
ABC News’ Ben Gittleson contributed to this report
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