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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, leaves decision to states [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. in 1973.
- The decision will now give states the power to allow, limit, or ban abortion.
- The 6-3 court decision was reached more than eight weeks after the draft version of Alito’s opinion was leaked to the public
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade — the landmark decision that legalized abortion in the US. The decision upholds a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It will now give the states the power to allow, limit, or ban abortion.
In a 6-3 ruling, the opinion by Justice Samuel Alito also overturned a 1992 case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The court found that state laws restricting abortion should not impose an “undue burden” on women seeking an abortion.
“Abortion presents a profound moral question,” Alito wrote. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”
The decision was reached more than eight weeks after the draft version of Alito’s opinion was leaked to Politico. The leaked draft sparked outrage and protests across the U.S.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote in the leaked draft. “Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”
Justices who joined Alito in his opinion include Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Separate opinions concurring with Alito’s judgment were filed by Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Roberts.
Democrat-appointed Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, according to reports.
Recent polling shows most Americans wanted the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade. Now, the decision will give 22 states the power to limit or implement total abortion bans.
Those states include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Last month, House Democrats attempted to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, but the bill was unsuccessful to clear a test vote in the Senate, only gathering 49 votes.
Source: CNBC
CandygramForMongo
June 25, 2022 at 7:27 am
This, once again, proves that democrats hate unborn babies………and black people, transgender people, foreign people………basically everyone.
CandygramForMongo
June 25, 2022 at 7:29 am
The same people who screamed “baby killers” at those coming back from Vietnam are now killing babies…….and it’s ok because THEY’RE profiting from it.
robert
June 25, 2022 at 4:42 pm
you got that right
WardMD
June 25, 2022 at 12:12 pm
Roe “established the constitutional right to abortion”. NO, it CREATED a pseudo-right.
Dobbs reverses (or vacates) that INCORRECT overreach by the Supreme Court, and CORRECTLY returns the question to THE STATES.
robert
June 25, 2022 at 4:41 pm
This is not a land mark deal. all they did was give the abortion thing back to the states. end of story.
DavidPun
June 25, 2022 at 6:13 pm
Perhaps the legal system needs to focus a bit more on the MAN who got the woman pregnant in the first place! Maybe if the Extreme …. sorry…. Supreme Court introduced a new law that said in the cases where a woman ends up with an unwanted pregnancy, rather than simply banning abortion, the legal system introduces TWO options to the situation.
1. The woman is required to go ahead with the pregnancy but the man who got her pregnant has to be publicly castrated, and then has to pay all the expenses of raising and caring for the unwanted child.
2. The woman can have an abortion.
CharlieSeattle
June 26, 2022 at 10:49 pm
Whooo, Hooo! The Leftist states can now expand Pro-abortion laws to include Infanticide. Red state ‘birthing persons’ that can not keep their legs closed and treat abortion as if it is cosmetic surgery, can simply go to California, Illinois or New York! Nothing has changed folks!!
Look, the SCOTUS decision was very weak in order to get the 5th and 6th SCOTUS vote. It could have considered the life of the ignoring party, THE BABY, under the 14th Amendment. …but did not!
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws. …..That means the unborn baby!
Unborn children as constitutional persons
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih….
As an effect of the unanimity of the states in holding unborn children to be persons under criminal, tort, and property law, the text of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels federal protection of unborn persons. Furthermore, to the extent Justice Blackmun examined the substantive law in these disciplines, his findings are clearly erroneous and as a whole amount to judicial error. Moreover, as a matter of procedure, according to the due process standards recognized in Fifth Amendment jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade should be held null and void as to the rights and interests of unborn persons. …but it was not!