BATON ROUGE, LA -
Attorney General Jeff Landry recently joined Louisiana to a coalition of 24
states filing a legal brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of
Mississippi’s law banning abortions after 15 weeks. The amicus brief in Dobbs
v. Jackson Women's Health Organization argues that Roe v. Wade should
be overturned because it has no basis in the Constitution.
“I will never waver
in my defense of the unborn,” said Attorney General Landry. “And I will
always support a state's right to protect the unborn and their mothers.”
Attorney General
Landry’s brief submits that Roe v. Wade and Casey v.
Planned Parenthood were wrongly decided and are the cause of
inconsistent rulings and differing jurisprudence.
“Because the
purported right to abortion lacks any textual or historical foundation, it is
defined only by the Court's constantly changing opinions,” wrote Attorney
General Landry and his colleagues who believe decisions on abortion should be
returned to the states.
Louisiana joined
Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana,
Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming in
filing this amicus brief.