In the Supreme Court of the United States

[Pages:10]No. 19-1392

In the Supreme Court of the United States

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THOMAS E. DOBBS, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS STATE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL.,

Petitioners,

v.

JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION, ET AL.,

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Respondents.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES

COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

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BRIEF FOR THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PEDIATRICIANS AND THE ASSOCIATION OF

AMERICAN PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS __________

CHRISTOPHER E. MILLS Counsel of Record

Spero Law LLC 1050 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. #83 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465 (843) 606-0640 cmills@spero.law Counsel for Amici Curiae

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.

ii TABLE OF CONTENTS

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QUESTION PRESENTED .......................................... i

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ...................................... iii

INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE.................................1

SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT ............................2

ARGUMENT ................................................................5

I. Roe and Casey relied on limited information about prenatal development. ............................5

II. Scientific knowledge has overtaken Roe and Casey. ............................................................... 10

III. The Court's abortion jurisprudence should account for these advances in scientific knowledge. .......................................................26

CONCLUSION ..........................................................30

iii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES

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CASES Colautti v. Franklin, 439 U.S. 379 (1979).................26 District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) ...1 Doe v. Bolton, 319 F. Supp. 1048 (N.D. Ga. 1970)......5 Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973) ..............4?5, 26, 30 Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124 (2007)...........16, 30 Hamilton v. Scott, 97 So. 3d 728 (Ala. 2012) ..............4 June Med. Servs. LLC v. Russo, 140 S. Ct. 2103,

(2020) ..........................................................4, 28?29 MKB Mgmt. Corp. v. Stenehjem, 795 F.3d 768 (8th

Cir. 2015) ........................................................17, 29 Planned Parenthood Minn., N.D., S.D. v. Rounds,

530 F.3d 724, 736 (8th Cir. 2008) (en banc) ........11 Planned Parenthood of Cent. Mo. v. Danforth, 428

U.S. 52 (1976) ...................................................4, 26 Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833

(1992) ................................................2, 9?10, 23, 26 Roe v. Wade, 314 F. Supp. 1217 (N.D. Tex. 1970) ......5 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113

(1973) .......................................... 2, 4?5, 7?8, 25?28 Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)......4, 27

iv Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000) ...................1

Tex. Med. Providers Performing Abortion Servs. v. Lakey, 667 F.3d 570 (5th Cir. 2012) ......................9

Thornburgh v. Am. Coll. of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986) ......................27

Webster v. Reprod. Health Servs., 492 U.S. 490 (1989) ....................................................................27

OTHER LEGAL AUTHORITIES

Antonin Scalia, The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules, 56 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1175 (1989) .............................29

Brief for Appellant, Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (No. 70-18), 1971 WL 128054.............................2, 8

Brief for Petitioners & Cross-Respondents, Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) (Nos. 91-744, 91-902), 1992 WL 12006398 ...............................................................10

Brief for the States of New York et al. as Amicus Curiae Supporting Appellant, Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) (Nos. 91-744, 91-902), 1992 WL 12006406 ...............................................................10

Brief for Women for the Unborn as Amicus Curiae Supporting Appellee, Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (No. 70-18), 1971 WL 134284 ...................30

The Federalist No. 78 (A. Hamilton) (J. Cooke ed. 1961)...................................................................... 28

v Clarke D. Forsythe & Bradley N. Kher, A Road Map

Through the Supreme Court's Back Alley, 57 Vill. L. Rev. 45 (2012).................................................5?6

David F. Forte, Life, Heartbeat, Birth: A Medical Basis for Reform, 74 Ohio. St. L.J. 121 (2012) ................................................................6, 12

Linda Greenhouse, Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey (2005) ............................................................5?7, 29

Maureen L. Condic, When Does Human Life Begin? The Scientific Evidence and Terminology Revisited, 8 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 44 (2013) ....................................................................28

Nan D. Hunter, Justice Blackmun, Abortion, and the Myth of Medical Independence, 72 Brook. L. Rev. 147 (2006) ...............................................................6

Planned Parenthood, "Plan Yc" Children for Health and Happiness (1963)...........................................30

Tinsley E. Yarbrough, Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice (2008) ..........................................7

SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITIES

Alessandra Pionetelli, Development of Normal Fetal Movements: The First 25 Weeks of Gestation (2010) ...................................... 13, 15?16, 20?22, 24

Am. Coll. of Obstetricians & Gynecologists et al., Committee Opinion Number 700: Methods for Estimating the Due Date (May 2017), available at

vi clinical/files/committee-opinion/ articles/2017/05/methods-for-estimating-the-duedate.pdf [] (last visited July 28, 2021) ...........................................29

Am. Coll. of Pediatricians, Fetal Pain: What is the Scientific Evidence? (Jan. 2021), available at [] (last visited July 28, 2021)................................................................14

Am. Coll. of Pediatricians, When Human Life Begins (Mar. 2017), available at position-statements/when-human-life-begins [] (last visited July 28, 2021)................................................................11

Am. Inst. of Ultrasound in Med., AIUM-ACR-ACOGSMFM-SRU Practice Parameter for the Performance of Standard Diagnostic Obstetric Ultrasound Examinations, 37 J. Ultrasound Med. E13 (2018)...............................................................9

Antti Holsti et al., Two-Thirds of Adolescents who Received Active Perinatal Care After Extremely Preterm Birth Had Mild or No Disabilities, 105 Acta Paediatrica 1288 (2016) ...............................24

Carlo V. Bellieni, Analgesia for Fetal Pain During Prenatal Surgery: 10 Years of Progress, 89 Pediatrics Rsch. 1612 (2021)................................19

Carlo V. Bellieni et al., Use of Fetal Analgesia During Prenatal Surgery, 26 J. Maternal-Fetal Neonatal Med. 90 (2013) ......................................................19

vii Carlo V. Bellieni & Giuseppe Buonocore, Is Fetal

Pain a Real Evidence?, 25 J. Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Med. 1203 (2012) ..................................15

Cleveland Clinic, Fetal Development: Stages of Growth (last updated Apr. 16, 2020), available at [https:// YG92-KRH4] (last visited July 28, 2021)................................................................21, 24

Curtis L. Lowery et al., Neurodevelopmental Changes of Fetal Pain, 31 Seminars Perinatology 275 (2007) ....................................................................14

Endowment for Hum. Dev., The Heart in Action: 4 Weeks, 4 Days, available at movies/21/The-Heart-in-Action [] (last visited July 28, 2021)................................................................12

Endowment for Hum. Dev., Your Life Before Birth (Mar. 18, 2019), available at 325006095 [] (last visited July 28, 2021) ...........................................12

Hikohiro Okawa et al., Eye Movement Activity in Normal Human Fetuses Between 24 and 39 Weeks of Gestation, 12 PLOS One, July 2017, e0178722 ...............................................................25

Int'l Ass'n for the Study of Pain, IASP Terminology (last updated Dec. 14, 2017), available at ?ItemNumber=1698#Nociception [] (last visited July 28, 2021)................................................................14

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