A group of more than 200 members of Congress, including 39 Republican Senators, and 166 House Republicans, have signed an Amicus Brief arguing that Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood “should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.” The brief comes in support of a Louisiana law that would require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the law this March as critics have argued that it poses an “undue burden” on access to abortion. Much of the brief documents the egregious abuses by abortion doctors in the state of Louisiana — citing the disturbingly high number of disciplinary actions against abortion providers, as well as many health and safety violations in Louisiana abortion clinics. In defense of the Louisiana law, the Amici show “that abortion providers’ interests are at odds with their patients’ interests,” and that the law should be upheld. But it is difficult to uphold the law because to do so sets it up to endless challenge under the “undue burden” test which has added to the unworkability of abortion law in the United States. The brief argues that the “already unworkable standard set out in Roe and Casey” has been aggravated by Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) which ruled 5–3 that Texas could not place similar restrictions on abortion providers because of the “undue burden” such standards would create for women seeking an abortion. Yet this test of burden that came with Casey, and was aggravated by Hellerstedt, is “vague and opaque,” leaving American citizens unprotected by the law. The Amicus brief highlights how the Supreme Court might think about the March challenge to the Louisiana law as an opportunity to rethink landmark judicial precedents which have become unworkable in the courts, causing “herculean struggles” in dozens of similar cases. The doctrine of stare decisis is often invoked in defense of Roe and Casey. It is the preference to see judicial precedents as binding the court to their past judgments. But the Amicus brief rightly states that “stare decisis is not an ‘inexorable command,’ much less a constitutional principle... Instead, it is a prudential and pragmatic judgment.” In fact, the court has frequently overruled past judgments when they present themselves as legally unworkable. And this is precisely the pragmatic point at which we find ourselves today.