After a leaked draft majority opinion caused a national uproar, by a vote of 6–3 on Friday morning, the Supreme Court formally overturned Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent that federalized abortion policy and overrode the states, making the procedure lawful throughout the entire United States.
The June 24 ruling came in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, court file 19-1392.
In the case, the only state-licensed abortion clinic in Mississippi opposed the state’s Gestational Age Act, which allows abortions after 15 weeks gestation only for medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormality. Citing Roe, lower courts held that the state statute was unconstitutional….