Rep. Cammack: Advances in Science Emphasize Need for Supreme Court to Rule Against Roe V. Wade

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The advances in science and medicine since the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade show why justices should overturn it, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) says.

โ€œRoe v. Wade came at a time when the science wasnโ€™t reflective of the fact that life begins at conception. Today, we know that to be true. And we know that the child in the womb can feel pain. We have science on our side,โ€ Cammack said during an interview with NTDโ€™s โ€œCapitol Reportโ€ over the weekend. [delete]

In Roe v. Wade, justices ruled abortion is a constitutional right and barred states from curtailing abortion access before fetal viability.

A followup ruling from the court in 1992 held states canโ€™t impose significant restrictions on abortion before a fetus becomes viable for life outside the womb.

In the years since, the age that unborn children can survive outside the womb has become youngerโ€”a 21-week-old baby survived in Alabama after being born prematurely. More experts have said recently that human life begins at conception while a growing body of evidence, indicates that unborn children younger than 24 weeks old may feel pain, researchers asserted last year.

Pro-life advocates say the developments demonstrate the need to revisit Roe v. Wade.

Roe v. Wade is being challenged by the state of Mississippi; justices heard oral arguments from Mississippi officials and lawyers for Jackson Womenโ€™s Health Organization, an abortion clinic in the state, last week.

Advancements in โ€œknowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain, what we know the child is doing and looks like and is fully human from a very early [stage],โ€ Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart told the court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama nominee, disagreed, claiming that โ€œa small fringe of doctors believe that pain could be experiencedโ€ before children in the womb develop cortexes.

A decision in the case isnโ€™t expected until next year.

Cammack said she sees disparities when the government discusses unborn children.

โ€œWhy is it that we classify bacteria on Mars as life, but not a child in the womb that has its own DNA, that has an entire nervous system, and functioning organs?โ€ When the DOJ takes up a case that is a pregnant woman who has been murdered, itโ€™s classified a double homicide. So in so many ways, they want to recognize a child in the womb, but only when itโ€™s convenient,โ€ Cammack said.

โ€œThis landmark case Dobbs v. Jackson, this is going to I think be the turning point where we really stand up as a nation and say that we recognize that that tiny baby in the womb with its own DNA as an individual has the same inalienable rights that every American has to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness,โ€ she added.

For Cammack, a first-term congresswoman who is the youngest Republican woman in the House, the issue is deeply personal.

Cammackโ€™s mother suffered a stroke when she was 27 and was told she would never be able to have children safely in the future.

She became pregnant and doctors warned her against continuing the pregnancy.

โ€œThe doctors told her โ€˜youโ€™re not going to be able to carry this baby to term. Itโ€™ll certainly die. And itโ€™ll probably kill you in the process.โ€™ And so that obviously scared her,โ€ Cammack said.

โ€œWhen she told her family, eventually, they also encouraged her, you need to abort this child, because you wonโ€™t survive, the child wonโ€™t survive. And against all odds, no support from family, she chose life. And she delivered an eight pounds six ounce, healthy baby girl,โ€ Cammack added.

Matthew Vadum contributed to this report.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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