The Supreme Court decided to overturn the landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
The court agreed with Mississippi that the standard for viability in the case of abortion should not have been set in the first place.
The ruling was divided along ideological lines with the court's conservative wing in the majority and three liberals dissenting.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the 1992 abortion decision that upheld the legality of the procedure should be overruled. The right to abortion is not protected by the constitution.
Roe was wrong from the beginning. The decision has had damaging consequences. The abortion issue has not been brought about a national settlement of it's issues.
Alito said it was time to return the issue of abortion to the elected representatives.
The opinion said that no choice is being made withdrawing a woman's right to choose. This means that the majority of the Court wrenched this choice from women and gave it to the States.
Millions of women have been given control of their bodies by the two men. It said that closing our eyes to the suffering will not make it go away.
The leaked opinion Alito wrote for the case was widely expected to be the court's decision. Alito called the decision "egregiously wrong" from the beginning.
The court's decision on abortion is expected to cause a lot of political division in the country. The anti-abortion movement has worked to undermine abortion rights since the decision of the Supreme Court. Women's access to reproductive healthcare has become a nightmare for abortion-rights advocates.
As a result of the court's decision, abortion laws will be decided by the court. The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion-rights organization that tracks reproductive- healthcare data, says at least 23 states are expected to impose restrictions on abortion.
Women are expected to be set back by unevenly accessed access. Low-income women are more likely to have unwanted pregnancies because they can't afford to travel to states where the procedure is legal. Texas enacted one of the strictest abortion laws in the country in September, banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancies, a time when many women do not know they are pregnant. Women in Texas who can afford to travel for an abortion have done so, though it's not certain if that will continue in a post-Roe landscape where abortion access is much less available.
Legal challenges will be set off by the new abortion restrictions. Legal experts say that those are likely to fail because of the Supreme Court's decision.
According to court watchers, the Supreme Court's public standing is in danger because of the decision, which overturned decades-old precedent.
Sherry Colb, a professor at Cornell Law School, told Insider before the decision was released that they didn't show a lot of respect for the stability of the institution.
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