# Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade (No longer a draft as of 06-24-2022.)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** roe\_vs\_wade\_abortion\
**Created:** [May 3, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-has-overturned-roe-v-wade-no-longer-a-draft-as-of-06-24-2022/963862 "2022-05-03T01:04:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-has-overturned-roe-v-wade-no-longer-a-draft-as-of-06-24-2022/963862/1587 "2022-09-15T19:51:03Z")

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Rep. Swalwell’s post is misleading. Republicans have officially supported (sponsored) legislation that would ban abortions at the federal level for years. It’s no secret. A constitutional amendment banning all abortions has been on the Republican party platform since at least 2016. They run their campaigns with abortion as a central issue and point the Republican base to those measures, which are always dead-on-arrival.

Those who didn’t already know this - Rep. Swalwell’s intended audience - are way out of the loop.

> [@Federal Ban on Abortion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/federal-ban-on-abortion/962352/34):
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> Do you know just how many nobodies in Congress support nationwide fetal personhood? In the Senate, Mr. Paul (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Thune, Mr. Rounds, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Risch, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Braun, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Scott of South Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary In the House of Representatives, Mr. Mooney (for himself, Mr. Burchett, Mr. Budd, Mr. Weber…

~Max

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