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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><img width="624" height="147" style="width:6.5in;height:1.5312in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D78464.B2391380"></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">July 29, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Gov. Little signs on to pro-life, states’ rights amicus brief seeking SCOTUS overrule of
<i>Roe v. Wade</i><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little signed on to an amicus brief today related to a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS), seeking to protect the lives of preborn babies and restore
state sovereignty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“Protecting the lives of preborn babies has always been and will continue to be a priority of mine. I am also a defender of state sovereignty. My decision to join this lawsuit to protect
lives and states’ rights reflects my conservative approach to constitutional interpretation. The ‘right’ to an abortion is a judicial creation. It is not a right expressed in the U.S. Constitution. I am asking the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify there is no
constitutional right to an abortion and restore state sovereignty by allowing states to regulate all abortions consistent with the principles of democratic self-governance,”
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As of today, the governors of Idaho, Montana, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Iowa, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri, and Oklahoma have joined a Governors’ amicus brief in
<i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</i>. The case centers around a 2018 Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks except in medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormality. Lower courts held that Mississippi’s law violated the holdings
in <i>Roe v. Wade</i> (1973) and <i>Planned Parenthood v. Casey</i> (1992), in which non-elected justices recognized a right to abortion exists contrary to the text and original meaning of the Constitution.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Governors’ amicus brief supports the State of<i>
</i>Mississippi’s cert petition, which SCOTUS accepted, to determine whether “all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.”
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Governors’ amicus brief requests SCOTUS overrule
<i>Roe </i>and<i> Casey</i> because there is no constitutional right to an abortion and, according to the principle of federalism, rights not granted in the U.S. Constitution should be entrusted to states to control.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">SCOTUS is expected to hear the case in the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2021/07/19-1392_amicus_brief.pdf">The Governors’ amicus brief can be found here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden joined 17 other attorneys general in a similar amicus brief earlier this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little also
</span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-signs-fetal-heartbeat-bill-into-law-protecting-the-lives-of-the-preborn/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">signed the “Fetal Heartbeat Bill”</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
into law in April to protect the lives of preborn babies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Marissa Morrison, Press Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">208-943-1686 or
</span><a href="mailto:marissa.morrison@gov.idaho.gov"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">marissa.morrison@gov.idaho.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
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