Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade, Ending 50 Years Of Federal Abortion Rights

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. in 1973.

iexclusivenews reports that the court’s contentious but anticipated decision grants individual states the freedom to enact their own abortion regulations.

Without worrying about breaking Roe, which had legalized abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

This online news outlet understands that the Supreme Court’s ruling, which is connected to a new Mississippi abortion legislation with extreme restrictions, is projected to result in over half of the states banning or severely restricting abortion.

Tens of millions of individuals will be impacted by the laws nationwide, and some may need to travel across state lines to access reproductive healthcare.

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Other states intend to keep their more lenient restrictions on pregnancies being terminated.

While abortion opponents applauded a victory they had long hoped for and worked to secure, proponents of abortion rights instantly denounced the decision.

On Friday, demonstrators flocked to the Supreme Court to express their support and opposition to a ruling that will challenge decades of American precedent.

As was to be expected, Justice Samuel Alito authored both the majority opinion that overturned Roe and the 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld the right to an abortion.

Four other conservative justices on the high court joined Alito in that decision. Although he did not support completely overturning Roe, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the majority in voting to uphold the Mississippi abortion restrictions.

Three justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—appointed by former president Donald Trump also made up the majority.

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The Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. quickly became the scene of protests after the three liberal justices of the court filed a dissenting opinion to the decision.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote.

“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Alito wrote.

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“That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition’ and ’implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” he added.

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Alito wrote.

In their scathing joint dissent, the court’s liberal justices wrote, “The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them. The majority thereby substitutes a rule by judges for the rule of law.”

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“The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom,” said the dissent by Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

“Today’s Court, that is, does not think there is anything of constitutional significance attached to a woman’s control of her body and the path of her life,” it said. “A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs.”

The conservative Justice Clarence Thomas concurred with the majority opinion. Saying that the Supreme Court should reevaluate its decisions in three other prior cases.

That established a right to use birth control and that there is a constitutional right for gay people to have sex and marry one another in light of the justification for overturning Roe.

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A century-old New York rule that had made it extremely difficult for citizens to obtain a license to carry a pistol outside of their houses was nullified by the Supreme Court in another contentious case the day before Friday’s controversial decision.

The Mississippi legislation that outlawed almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy was the subject of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization lawsuit, which led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Dobbs was by far the most important and divisive case heard by the court during its tenure.

The threat it posed to abortion rights was also the greatest since Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the Supreme Court upheld Roe.

In a time of heightened political tribalism, Dobbs widened partisan differences.

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What You Should Know 

A draft of the majority opinion, which entirely overturned Roe, was leaked in early May, shocking the nation and inspiring activists on both sides of the issue.

The nation’s highest court was also affected, and an investigation was launched almost once to determine where the leak came from.

As 22 states prepare to restrict or outright ban abortions. The revelation of the court’s draft judgment. Which was drafted by Alito, triggered protests from proponents of abortion rights. Who were angered and concerned about how the decision will affect both patients and providers.

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The leaked ruling represented a significant win for conservatives and opponents of abortion who had spent decades trying to undermine Roe and Casey, which most Americans support maintaining.

But Republican leaders in Washington originally paid more attention to the leak itself than what it revealed since they are hoping to do well in the November midterm elections.

Additionally, they condemned the demonstrations that erupted in front of the residences of some conservative justices, charging demonstrators with attempting to intimidate the court.

iexclusivenews reports that the veil of secrecy typically surrounding the court’s internal business was shattered by the unusual disclosure of Alito’s draft ruling.

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The court’s detractors, many of whom were already worried about the politicization of the nation’s most powerful deliberative body, whose justices are appointed for life, reacted angrily to it.

Roberts vowed that the work of the court “will not be affected in any way” by the leak. Which he described as a “betrayal” intended to “undermine the integrity of our operations.”

However, iexclusivenews Nigeria reports that it was obvious that the leak had an effect. After that, tall fencing was erected around the courthouse. And U.S. Marshals Service was given the order to “help ensure the Justices’ safety” by Attorney General Merrick Garland.