The Republican-Owned Supreme Court Declares War on Women’s Rights
Well, there’s no way to minimize it, this is very bad news: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows.
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
THREAD My Thoughts on @politico story saying the Court voted to say Roe v. Wade is fully overruled.I’ve quickly scanned the draft opinion and it appears legitimate. This means there was a preliminary vote to fully overrule Roe V Wade and that a majority of the Court agreed.
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) May 3, 2022