![]() ![]() Under state restrictions, “a woman will have to bear her rapist’s child or a young girl her father’s – no matter if doing so will destroy her life”, the liberal justices wrote.Ġ1:06 AOC escorted by police as she joins pro-abortion rights protests – videoĪ draft opinion, in which Alito laid out a caustic argument for reversing Roe v Wade, was leaked in May. ![]() The three liberal justices dissented, saying the majority opinion “says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of”, and that conservatives well knew states would enact – and in many cases had already enacted – abortion restrictions to the moment of conception. “The constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”Ĭhief Justice John Roberts said he would have upheld Mississippi’s law but not overruled Roe. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” said the majority opinion, written by Samuel Alito and joined by four other conservatives, referring also to a 1992 ruling which buttressed Roe. The ruling, handed down a day after the court overturned a New York gun control law, came in the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the last abortion clinic in Mississippi opposed state efforts to ban abortion after 15 weeks and overturn Roe. ![]() Biden reacts to court ruling that overturns Roe v Wade – watch live ![]()
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