- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS
24, 2022, DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES IN DOBBS
V. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Mr. DAINES (for himself, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Budd, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Hawley, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Cornyn, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Graham, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Scott of Florida, and Mr. Banks) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:
S. Res. 787
Whereas the Declaration of Independence announces the self-
evident truth that “all men are created equal” and “are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”;
Whereas the first of those unalienable rights is the right
to life;
Whereas modern science has illuminated our understanding of
the humanity of unborn life;
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States committed a
grave injustice in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (referred
to in this preamble as “Roe”), by inventing a
constitutional right to abortion, thereby denying a class of
innocent people their right to life;
Whereas more than 63,000,000 unborn lives were lost to
abortion under Roe;
Whereas, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United
States, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597
U.S. 215 (2022) (referred to in this preamble as “Dobbs”),
corrected the grave injustice committed in Roe, by holding
that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion”
and that “Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority
to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their
elected representatives”;
Whereas many States have taken historic steps to protect
unborn life since the ruling of the Supreme Court of the
United States in Dobbs;
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs
reaffirmed that authority to regulate abortion belongs to the
people and their elected representatives, yet the dangerous
mail-order abortion drug policy advanced by the Biden
Administration undermined and continues to undermine the
ability of States to enforce laws enacted to protect unborn
life;
Whereas, after the Dobbs decision, more than 2,700
pregnancy centers across the United States have continued to
help meet the physical, psychological, emotional, and
spiritual needs of millions of women and families navigating
pregnancy and to offer life-affirming alternatives to
abortion; and
Whereas many millions of people in the United States
continue to press to protect unborn life and strengthen
support for families charged with protecting that life: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) commemorates 4 years since the ruling of the Supreme
Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health
Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022) (referred to in this
resolution as “Dobbs”);
(2) celebrates the millions of lives that will be saved as
a result of the ruling in Dobbs;
(3) commits to protecting the unalienable right to life and
guarding unborn lives against lethal violence;
(4) commits to supporting families, including new and
expectant mothers and their children;
(5) recognizes that the promise of Dobbs requires respect
for the authority of the people and their elected
representatives to enact and enforce laws protecting unborn
life; and
(6) commits to proclaiming the humanity of the unborn,
consistent with the findings of modern science and the
unswerving demands of justice.