Commentary
According to a recently leaked draft of an upcoming majority opinion of the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is about to be overruled in its entirety. Setting aside the fact that this is an unprecedented breach of the court’s internal security likely being done in a last-ditch effort to pressure the justices to change their minds, this alleged decision penned by Justice Samuel Alito would represent a massive step forward in stopping abortions across the country.
The draft (pdf) correctly explains that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.” Not the least of the referenced “damaging consequences” is the over 63 million babies that have been murdered since the court issued the decision in 1973. If this draft is substantially similar to whatever the final version the court will release, then the individual states will become the decision-makers concerning the legality of abortion. In many states such as Texas, trigger laws have been passed that will make abortion almost entirely illegal upon the repeal of Roe.
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