The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, striking down the constitutional right to abortion established in the landmark ruling nearly 50 years ago
striking down the constitutional right to abortion established in the landmark ruling nearly 50 years ago.
On June 24, the high court ruled that pre-viability bans on elective abortions are constitutional, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Chief Justice John Roberts filed his own opinion concurring in the judgment that pre-viability bans can stand, but declining to overturnThe court’s three liberal Justices—Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—dissented.
After nearly half a century of constitutional protections for abortion, the ruling fundamentally reshapes access to reproductive health care across the U.S. Thirteen states have already enactedis overturned, and those will now go into effect—some immediately and others in the coming hours and days. More bans are expected to come soon.
“A right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Alito also wrote in the majority opinion. “On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.”Politico on May 3The three liberal Justices authored the dissent.
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