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In one of the most stunning reversals in the modern era of the Supreme Court, a majority of the court overturned a 50-year precedent and gave states the right to ban abortions.
Activists are protesting in front of the US Supreme Court.
Justice Samuel Alito was the one who delivered the opinion for the court.
Alito wrote a draft opinion in February that said the right to an abortion is not explicitly stated in the Constitution.
Four justices signed on to Alito's opinion, while the other three justices dissented.
Roberts said he agreed with getting rid of the previous standard the court had established, but that the court went too far in deciding the fate of the Mississippi law.
In 1992, the court found that states couldn't impose abortion restrictions that posed an "undue burden" on the person getting the abortion.
A majority of the time. According to a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted in May, a majority of Americans don't want the abortion law to be changed. A majority of Americans support legal access to abortion, but many prefer to restrict it further into a pregnant woman's body
Alito said that the two people must be overruled. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is the only constitutional provision that protects abortion rights.
The result of today's decision is certain: the curtailment of women's rights and of their status as free and equal citizen. Despite its guarantees of liberty and equality for all, the constitution will not provide a shield.
It's time for states to ban abortion immediately. Once a state official signs off on the law, it will take effect regardless of the Supreme Court's decision. In Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, abortion will be banned completely and the procedure will be a felony if performed. The state of Oklahoma has already banned abortion completely. Michigan's law has been blocked from being enforced by the Attorney General because he doesn't want to enforce it. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 26 states will eventually ban abortion after the Supreme Court's decision on the case.
The decision will go past just banning abortion. Abortion rights advocates have warned that if the law is overturned, it could have knock-on effects that could affect other areas of reproductive rights, such as birth control and infertility, as well as adversely impact people who have miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies. Same-sex and interracial marriage are some of the rights the court has upheld that aren't explicitly stated in the constitution being struck down.
After Republican-led states passed a slew of abortion restrictions with an eye toward getting the issue back in front of the 6-3 conservative court, the Mississippi case was the Supreme Court's biggest abortion case in decades. Several states took increased action to restrict abortion even as the court was still considering the case, with multiple states passing 15-week bans in line with Mississippi's and Texas's, as well as a six week ban that Idaho and Oklahoma have already enacted. The ban in Idaho has been blocked. While the case was widely expected to result in the court rolling back abortion rights, the leak of Alito's draft opinion set off a renewed focus on abortion rights, sparking protests across the country.
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