Breaking: SCOTUS Upholds Mississippi Law, Overturns Roe v. Wade
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The court has voted to uphold the Mississippi law being tried in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. This effectively ends any recognition of abortion as a Constitutional right, and returns the issue to the states and the American people’s elected representatives.
The opinion authored by Justice Alito reads:
“Held: 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.“
“Without any grounding in the constitutional text, history, or precedent, Roe imposed on the entire country a detailed set of rules for pregnancy divided into trimesters much like those that one might expect to find in a statute or regulation . . . Roe’s failure even to note the overwhelming consensus of state laws in effect in 1868 is striking, and what it said about the common law was simply wrong.“
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
In 1973 when Roe was first observed by SCOTUS, 30 states held that abortion was illegal in all stages. Roe has been criticized as a massive overreach by the court, infringing upon states rights to determine their own laws regarding reproduction.
This ruling comes from the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case that was in regard to a Mississippi law banning nearly all abortions after 15-weeks of gestation.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Mississippi law, multiple states have followed suit and have implemented near or total bans on abortions. It is expected that at least 25 states will ban abortion in nearly all circumstances, at all gestational periods.
This ruling will not infringe on states such as Colorado, California, New York, Washington, and many more that will continue to allow abortions through the point of viability, when the fetus could survive with minimal assistance outside the womb.
This Supreme Court has chosen to uphold the rule of law and has returned the states’ authority to chose their own fate. It has returned to the American people their right to choose how they will live, and what they will permit.
