After an unidentified source leaked a draft decision of a Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case that would overturn Roe v. Wade, several Democrats are hoping to use the issue to galvanize their base in the 2022 midterms.
The draft decision was first reported on May 2 by Politico, and showed that SCOTUS had decided to overrule the standards laid out in Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood that required all 50 states to allow abortion during the first trimester.
The text came as a political shock for Democrats, who have long championed the Roe standard.
“The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a joint statement on May 2. They said the decision would be the “greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years.”
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