Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, leaves issue up to states

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NY Post

Callie Patteson

June 24, 2022 10:10am

The Supreme Court has overturned its 49-year-old landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the US, upholding a Mississippi law banning the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy – and leaving the issue up to each of the 50 states.

The decision was handed down weeks after a draft version of the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico – sparking outrage and protests across the country. 

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote in that leaked decision, adding that “its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.” 

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, paving way for state abortion bans

The Supreme Court overturned the half-century-old ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortions nationwide, giving states the power to determine limits on when a woman can terminate a pregnancy.

A majority of justices, each appointed by Republican presidents, joined the opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, ruling Mississippi can maintain its law banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation. In addition to Alito, those voting in favor were Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas , Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice John Roberts.

“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” a syllabus of the opinion said.

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The justices voted 6-3 to strike down Roe. Alito wrote the majority opinion, with Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett joining. Thomas and Kavanaugh filed concurring opinions, and Roberts filed another opinion concurring with the judgment. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.

"Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws," the dissenters wrote, "one result of today's decision is certain: the curtailment of women's rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens."

The justices in the minority also criticized the majority's "cavalier approach to overturning this Court's precedents."

 

A ruling in the case follows the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion on May 2, which signaled to the nation an imminent curtailing of decades of abortion access established under Roe and the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

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Power Line

Dobbs Drops, Roe Overturned

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STEVE adds: I picked the wrong day to sleep in! I’ll second John: when looking at the Court this week, sometimes you just have to take the sweet with the sweet. I’m on the lookout for the most hysterical reaction from leftists.

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Politicians, key figures react to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade

Mitch McConnell

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell backed the Supreme Court ruling.

McConnell took to Twitter writing, "The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct. This is an historic victory for the Constitution and for the most vulnerable in our society."

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The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct. This is an historic victory for the Constitution and for the most vulnerable in our society. My full statement: https://t.co/oPTzOYOeAU

— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) June 24, 2022

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Here's the Supreme Court's Basis for Overruling Roe and Casey

The Supreme Court's opinion released Friday is the culmination of decades of work by pro-life activists and comes amid an unprecedented level of hostility toward members of the high court who believed that the "right" to abortion created in Roe and revised in Casey was based on flawed legal reasoning. While the left is already planning for a "night of rage" in response to the decision overruling Roe that merely returns abortion policy-making power to the people and their elected representatives, here's what Justice Alito said were the five factors that weighed strongly in favor of overturning Roe and Casey.

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In Concurring Opinion, Thomas Says Court Should Reconsider These Other Rulings

In a solo concurring opinion to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider other opinions. 

 

Specifically, the conservative justice pointed to Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell, which concern contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage, respectively. 

“The Court’s abortion cases are unique…and no party has asked us to decide ‘whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised,” he wrote. “Thus, I agree that “[n]othing in [the Court’s] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.

“For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” he continued. “Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’…we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents…” :snip:

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Wisconsin doctors halt abortions following court ruling

SCOTT BAUER

June 23 2022

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Doctors across Wisconsin said they would immediately stop providing abortions, even as questions remained about the enforceability of a 173-year-old state ban, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down its Roe v. Wade decision on Friday.

Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother, but whether that law is enforceable is expected to be challenged in court. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he would have news next week about how his office would respond to Friday’s ruling.

The nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council, which is comprised of attorneys who advise the Legislature, indicated in a memo that the enforceability of the state ban will likely have to be decided by a judge.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the monumental Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion across the America. Glory to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!

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‘Activists in robes’: Democrats delegitimize Supreme Court in response to abortion ruling

Sen. Tina Smith, a former Planned Parenthood executive, called for taking "this fight to the Republicans who made this happen."

Anthony Gockowski

June 24, 2022

Minnesota Democrats are delegitimizing the institution of the Supreme Court and urging their supporters to “take this fight” to Republicans in response to Friday’s historic ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court voted Friday to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, sending the abortion issue back to the states.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

A draft opinion in the case was leaked to the media in May, which was followed by attacks on pro-life organizations across the country. One man was even arrested for attempting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

State Democrats reacted in fury to the ruling, with Rep. Ilhan Omar claiming it “will be recorded in the history books in the same nauseous tones as decisions like Dred Scott, Korematsu, Plessy, and Buck.”

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Commentary: Roe’s demise is a victory for the family

It's not exactly surprising that the 50-year quest to build personal happiness, security, and freedom off of the suffering of women and the killing of infants has failed.

Terry Schilling

June 24, 2022

(Daily Caller News Foundation) — Roe v. Wade is dead. It is difficult to overstate the momentousness of this occasion. Today’s Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will go down in history as among the most significant events in modern American politics. For pro-lifers, it is an achievement long dreamed of, and yet one that few dared hope for until recently.

After 49 years under the absurd legal regime of Roe and its progeny, Dobbs is a seismic change. It will, in the immediate term, likely preserve the lives of countless unborn children. It will save many women from the misery and abuse of coercive abortionists. It will also affect our politics in ways America’s leaders are only just beginning to grapple with.

Now that the barbarity of abortion can once again be legally restricted, if not outlawed entirely, who will do it? How will the issue be addressed legislatively after having been left in the hands of unelected jurists for decades? Will Congress assume its 14th Amendment duty to “enforce, by appropriate legislation,” these unborn persons’ right to life, as some pro-lifers have urged?

Many other commentators will offer their answers to these questions in the days ahead. The pro-life movement is uniquely lucky to have numerous talented thinkers who have been preparing for this day for, in many cases, most of their lives. The other side, meanwhile, is despondent. When the Dobbs draft decision first leaked, pro-abortion activists took to Twitter to vent their anger — a vitriolic outpouring of the kind of rage currently fueling a run of terrorist attacks on crisis pregnancy centers nationwide.

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Still A Lot Of Work To Be Done.  Remember it took 100+ years to really undo Slavey.

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Pro-life and abortion-rights demonstrators react to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Pro-life activists celebrate outside the Supreme Court as the court rules in Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v Wade in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2022.Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

 

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And also a bunch people who think poisoning...chopping up....selling body part is a  Right.

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Youngkin vows to ‘protect life’ as Supreme Court overturns right to abortion

‘I’m proud to be a pro-life governor’

Graham Moomaw, Kate Masters and Rahul Chowdhry Sharma

June 24, 2022 11:21 am

Gov. Glenn Youngkin applauded Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision abolishing the constitutional right to an abortion and said Virginia Republicans will get to work on legislation “protecting the life of unborn children” by potentially banning most abortions after 15 weeks.

“The Supreme Court of the United States has rightfully returned power to the people and their elected representatives in the states,” Youngkin said in a statement released roughly an hour after the court handed down the seismic ruling that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. “I’m proud to be a pro-life governor and plan to take every action I can to protect life. The truth is, Virginians want fewer abortions, not more abortions.”

The ruling, which gives states new power to restrict and regulate abortion, has no immediate impact in Virginia, where abortion remains legal largely because pro-choice Democrats have controlled the governor’s mansion for most of the last decade and currently hold a narrow majority in the state Senate. But it will undoubtedly make abortion rights a top issue in a politically divided state, where Republicans won the upper hand in last year’s elections and could potentially take full control of the statehouse in 2023.

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Here Is a State-by-State Rundown of What Will Happen Now That SCOTUS Has Freed Lawmakers To Restrict Abortion

Most states are unlikely to enact bans, but 22 either have them already or probably will soon

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What progressives get wrong about overturning Roe: Now, it's citizens who will decide. - Jonathan Turley

With the release of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, politicians and pundits went public with a parade of horribles – from the criminalization of contraceptives to the reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. In reality, the post-Roe world will look much like the Roe world for most citizens.

 

While this is a momentous decision, it is important to note what it does and does not do.

The decision itself was already largely known. It did not dramatically change since the leak of an earlier draft. The conservative majority held firm in declaring that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided: "The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives."

 

Chief justice stood alone

In the end, Chief Justice John Roberts cut a bit of a lonely figure in the mix of the court on the issue. His concurrence did not seriously question the majority view that Roe was not based on a good law. However, he would have stopped short of overturning the decision outright. It is the ultimate call of an incrementalist detached from the underlying constitutional interpretation.

The court now has a solid majority of justices who are more motivated by what they view as "first principles" than pragmatic concerns. From a court that has long used nuanced (and maddeningly vague) opinions to avoid major changes in constitutional doctrine, we now have clarity on this issue. It will return to the citizens of each state to decide.