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Jun 24, 2022 · Ending nearly 50 years of federally protected access to abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, returning power to individual states to set their own laws.
- Alito’s Majority Opinion
- A Solo Plea from Roberts
- Concurrences from Kavanaugh and Thomas
- The Liberal Justices Dissent
Alito began his 79-page opinion by observing that abortion “presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.” But the Constitution does not refer to abortion at all, Alito stressed. And although the Supreme Court has recognized some constitutional rights as protected by the due process clause, even if they are not ...
Calling the majority opinion “a serious jolt to the legal system,” Roberts agreed with the decision to uphold the Mississippi law, but he would have done so without formally overruling Roe and Casey. Echoing a position that he took at the oral argument (which then, as now, did not seem to attract any other supporters), Roberts would have allowed st...
Kavanaugh joined the Alito opinion but wrote a separate concurring opinion in which he emphasized that the Constitution is “neutral” on abortion and, therefore “this Court must also be scrupulously neutral” on the question. “The nine unelected Members of this Court do not possess the constitutional authority to override the democratic process and t...
In a rare joint dissent, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan pushed back against the majority’s characterization of the decision as merely leaving the issue of abortion to the states. “We believe,” they wrote, “in a Constitution that puts some issues off limits to majority rule.” The dissenters also rejected Kavanaugh’s depiction of Friday’s ruling as “ne...
Jun 24, 2022 · Millions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. The judgement paves the way for individual...
Jun 24, 2022 · WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had stood for nearly a half-century. The decision by the court’s...
Jun 24, 2022 · In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half...
- Nina Totenberg
Jun 24, 2022 · The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks. In doing so, it has effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion for millions of US...
Jun 24, 2022 · The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
