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National News See other National News Articles Title: Supreme Court gives states green light to ban abortion, overturning Roe The bombshell decision is set to upend races across the country as governors, attorneys general, and other state and local leaders gain new powers to decide when abortion will be permitted. Demonstrators celebrating with champagne outside the Supreme Court. In its official opinion, the court’s conservative majority went beyond simply resolving the case before them and instead overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. | Steve Helber/AP Photo By Josh Gerstein and Alice Miranda Ollstein 06/24/2022 10:18 AM EDT Updated: 06/24/2022 11:03 AM EDT The Supreme Court on Friday revoked the constitutional right to an abortion that has been in place for half a century — overturning Roe v. Wade on a 5-4 vote, clearing the way for dozens of states to swiftly ban the procedure and throwing the country into uncharted political, legal, social and medical territory. The bombshell decision is set to upend elections across the country as governors, attorneys general and other state and local leaders gain new powers to decide when abortion will be permitted, if at all, and who should be prosecuted and potentially incarcerated when bans take effect. The high court’s vote to overturn nearly five decades of court rulings upholding a right to end a pregnancy won the support of five of the court’s six conservative justices while Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices opposed overruling Roe. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, hewed closely to the draft version obtained exclusively by POLITICO and published in early May. A screengrab shows the first page of the Dobbs Supreme Court opinion. Supreme Court Read the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade By POLITICO Staff In its official opinion, the court’s conservative majority went beyond simply resolving the case before them — Mississippi’s near-ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy — and instead overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, long-standing precedents that barred states from banning abortion before the point of fetal viability. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, “ Alito wrote. “This Court cannot bring about the permanent resolution of a rancorous national controversy simply by dictating a settlement and telling the people to move on.” As the draft previewed, Alito argued that history demonstrates no tradition in the U.S. of a right to abortion and the absence of such protections undermines the Supreme Court’s conclusion 49 years ago that abortion rights were implicit in a constitutional right to privacy. However, the court’s five-justice majority also cautioned that their momentous decision to retreat from Roe does not mean other court decisions grounded in privacy rights are in jeopardy. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion,” he wrote. Post-Roe America would spark onslaught of statewide battles: Politico Explains The court’s liberal wing, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, joined together in a single fiery dissent warning that the action by the court’s majority was deeply unwise and disruptive. “Withdrawing a woman’s right to choose whether to continue a pregnancy does not mean that no choice is being made. It means that a majority of today’s Court has wrenched this choice from women and given it to the States,” the Democratic-appointed justices wrote. “Women have relied on Roe and Casey in this way for 50 years. Many have never known anything else. When Roe and Casey disappear, the loss of power, control, and dignity will be immense.” The court’s liberals also predicted that the Republican-appointed majority’s willingness to overrule a nearly half century old precedent bodes ill for other decisions regularly relied on by Americans and for respect for the legal system. “It makes the Court appear not restrained but aggressive, not modest but grasping. In all those ways, today’s decision takes aim, we fear, at the rule of law,” Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan wrote. In a solo concurring opinion, Roberts staked out a middle ground position, arguing that the court had no need to overrule Roe in its entirety and should have simply upheld Mississippi’s 15-week limit while leaving questions about the constitutionality of tighter restrictions to future cases. “I am not sure…that a ban on terminating a pregnancy from the moment of conception must be treated the same under the Constitution as a ban after fifteen weeks,” Roberts wrote. “I would decide the question we granted review to answer—whether the previously recognized abortion right bars all abortion restrictions prior to viability, such that a ban on abortions after fifteen weeks of pregnancy is necessarily unlawful. The answer to that question is no, and there is no need to go further to decide this case.” However, Roberts was unable to win over any other justice to that position, leaving his analysis of the legal issues as little more than a historical footnote. Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the majority opinion overruling Roe, but also wrote his own concurring opinion that seemed to caution against use of Friday’s decision to undermine other rights not mentioned in the Constitution. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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The leftist politicians and MSM are lying and doing everything in their bag of shitty tricks to incite rioting over the individual states having some power returned to them. ROE OVERTURNED!!! LIVE Coverage From Outside the Supreme Court | Louder with Crowder 3hrs
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