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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a resolution on Tuesday to “celebrate” the anniversary of when the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022.
“This ruling made it clear there is no constitutional right to take the life of an unborn child and returned authority over abortion to the American people and their elected representatives,” Rubio said in a statement.
Seventeen other Republican senators signed on to the resolution:
Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) James Lankford (Okla.) Ted Budd (N.C.) Roger Wicker (Miss.) Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.) Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) Jim Risch (Idaho) Pete Ricketts (Neb.) Steve Daines (Mont.) Katie Britt (Ala.) Josh Hawley (Mo.) Deb Fischer (Neb.) Todd Young (Ind.) Mike Lee (Utah) Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.) John Barrasso (Wyo.) Roger Marshall (Kan.)
Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is up for re-election in November, did not sign on to the resolution.
The resolution calls the original Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973 that protected the right to an abortion a “grave injustice,” and says that the ruling invented “a constitutional right to abortion, thereby denying a
