The Minister of Justice of the state of Virginia submitted a legal motion on Friday, with which he withdraws the support of the pro-abortion legal opinion that the states supporting artificial pregnancy previously submitted to the Supreme Court (LB), which also plays the role of the US Constitutional Court, reported the American newspaper National Review.
According to the online portal of the right-wing conservative biweekly, Virginia Republican Justice Minister Jason Miyares defeated his Democratic Party predecessor, Mark Herring, in the November 2021 election, and was inaugurated on Saturday along with newly elected Governor Glenn Youngkin and Deputy Governor Winsome Sears.
During the tenure of minister Mark Herring, the state of Virginia joined nearly two dozen left-wing American states that sent a legal expert opinion, a so-called amicus curiae letter, to the federal constitutional court, and in a letter called for the constitutionality of the law restricting abortion in the state of Mississippi. South Mississippi protects the right to life of fetuses older than 15 weeks.
The legal opinion, led by the traditionally liberal Democratic state of California, argues that the Mississippi law is unconstitutional and asks the federal court not to overturn the precedent-setting constitutional court decisions that created it (Roe v. Wade). and later upheld (Planned Parenthood v. Casey) the constitutional right to abortion.
Jason Miyares now wants to end support for this pro-abortion legal opinion from the state of Virginia. The National Review quotes the minister's motion, according to which "the State of Virginia no longer shares the arguments of the previously filed amicus curiae letter and now takes the position that the US Constitution is silent on the issue of induced abortion, and therefore the right of residents of US states to decide on the legal status and regulation of abortion".
Miyares' motion then asks the federal constitutional court to uphold Mississippi's abortion law and overturn previous legal precedents on abortion. This essentially means that Virginia is calling for the repeal of the current abortion law in the United States (known as Roe v. Wade).
"The Court must restore judicial neutrality in the abortion debate by allowing the residents of the US member states to make their own decisions on this issue," the motion states.
Meanwhile, on Friday, several thousand people took part in the freezing cold in the American capital, Washington, in the annual anti-abortion demonstration called "March For Life", which has been held every year since January 1974. The anti-abortion movement is planning such a march in several places on the West Coast of the United States in the coming days.
In the United States, the federal Supreme Court, which acts as the constitutional court, made its historic decision in 1973 in the "Roe v. Wade" litigation, which essentially provides a constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
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