May 2, 2022, 09:59pm.
According to a leaked draft opinion obtained by Politico, members of the Supreme Court have agreed to overturn the 1973.
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The draft opinion was signed by a conservative Justice Samuel Alito and stamped with a message indicating it was distributed to other judges, according to a report.
The opinion says that both abortion rights and the case that changed them must be overruled.
The draft doesn't note which justices signed onto the opinion, but an unnamed person familiar with the decision said at least four other conservative judges sided with Alito.
The status of Chief Justice John Roberts is not clear, and the court's three liberal justices will draft at least one dissent.
The Mississippi abortion case is expected to be decided by the Supreme Court by the end of June.
The fact that a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked to a news outlet is a first. The high court largely conducts its internal deliberations in secret before rendering its decisions, and substantive leaks from the justices' chambers are virtually unheard of. Forbes reached out to the court's public information office.
Many Republican-led states are trying to limit access to abortion as the high court considers the issue. In recent years, many states, including Mississippi, have passed laws that would ban abortion completely after a number of points during a pregnant woman's life, while other states have passed more technical restrictions on medical clinics that make it difficult to receive an abortion. Historically, federal judges have blocked most laws that violate the law of the land, but last year, the Supreme Court seemed to be more open to abortion restrictions that clash with legal precedent. The Texas law that banned almost all abortions after six weeks was not struck down by the court because of its unusual structure. In December, several of the Supreme Court's conservative judges appeared ready to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, setting the stage for either a wholesale end to abortion or a narrower decision that gives states more power. The court appears to have decided against the more sweeping option and decided to strike down the abortion law.
26. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the number of states that will ban most abortions if the Wade is overturned. The list includes states withtrigger laws that ban the procedure as soon as it's legalized, as well as states with pre-Roe bans that are still on the books.
The Supreme Court voted to overturn abortion rights.
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