In a historic reversal, the Supreme Court voted to overturn the landmark abortion law, but left the decision to the states.
The authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives, according to the decision. The issue of abortion should be returned to the elected representatives.
The ruling says that abortion presents a moral question. The citizens of each state have the right to regulate abortion. The authority was arrogated by the two men. The authority to make those decisions is back to the people.
The justices disagreed in a Dissenting Opinion. The opinions were written by Justices Thomas and Roberts.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of early June, 26 states were certain or likely to ban abortion in the absence of the Supreme Court's 1973 decision. 13 of those states had laws that stopped legal abortions immediately.
It was expected that the court would overturn the decision after a leaked draft majority opinion by Alito was leaked among members.
Alito wrote that the court should overrule the decision.
He said it was time for the issue of abortion to be returned to the elected representatives.
The University of Colorado Law School professor told Fortune that she was shocked by the court's treatment of women.
She called the overturn the biggest non-scoop in history.
It is the first time a draft has been leaked.
The draft opinion contains contempt for women and is an invasion of a woman's body to force her to have a baby.
According to a person familiar with the court's deliberations, four justices voted with Alito to overturn the abortion law.
In May of this year, Josh Wilson, professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Denver, told Fortune that conservative justices were looking for a way to overturn the Supreme Court's decision to legalized abortion.
He said it was remarkable. There is a discussion of a conservative supermajority. Will they do anything about abortion? It seemed like they would keep chipping away at abortion access.
The Senate failed to pass a bill that would have legalized abortion into federal law. The Republicans blocked the proceeding with a 51-47 vote. Sixty votes were needed to advance.
President Joe Biden said in response to the vote that Republicans had chosen to stand in the way of Americans' rights to make the most personal decisions.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia have laws to restrict abortions in the absence of the Supreme Court's decision
The right to abortion was protected in 16 states and the District of C. California, Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington have laws to protect abortion.
The story is evolving and will be updated.
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