President Joe Biden says that if the Supreme Court moves to overturn Roe v. Wade it would represent a “fundamental shift in American jurisprudence.”
A draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito—leaked to the press and published by Politico May 2—suggests the Supreme Court has decided to strike down the 1973 decision that made abortion legal throughout the United States.
The authenticity of the document was later confirmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, who issued a statement calling the leak “a betrayal of the confidences” of the Supreme Court.
Were Roe v. Wade to be overturned, it would return the regulation of abortion to the states—about half of which have indicated an intent of banning or limiting abortions.
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