The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday morning in a 6-3 ruling. This decision will return legal authority over abortion to the states.
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.
This ruling was made in the Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs (Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health) v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi abortion facility.
The issue before the Court was a Mississippi law passed in 2018 that banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The law never took effect because it was immediately challenged. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s sole abortion provider, filed a lawsuit claiming this law was unconstitutional.
“Two lower courts agreed, saying an unbroken line of Supreme Court rulings dating back to Roe established that states can regulate — but not outright ban — the procedure in the pre-viability months of pregnancy,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
The state of Mississippi then appealed to the Supreme Court.
The opinion states:
Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.
The viability line, which Casey termed Roe’s central rule, makes no sense, and it is telling that other countries almost uniformly eschew such a line. The Court thus asserted raw judicial power to impose, as a matter of constitutional law, a uniform viability rule that allows the States less freedom to regulate abortion than the majority of western democracies enjoy.
All in all, Roe’s reasoning was exceedingly weak, and academic commentators, including those who agreed with the decision as a matter of policy, were unsparing in their criticism.
Last month’s leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion (also written by Alito) that would overturn Roe v. Wade sent shockwaves throughout Washington and sparked an unprecedented level of crazy among liberals.
Activists hoping to pressure conservative justices into reconsidering their decisions before the final ruling in the case protested outside their homes.
A pro-abortion activist group that calls itself “Ruth Sent Us,” after the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, scheduled visits to the homes of each of the conservative Supreme Court justices.
The group’s website showed a google map with pins revealing the addresses for Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts.
Additionally, a 26-year-old man has been accused of trying to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. At the time of his arrest outside of Kavanaugh’s Maryland home, the suspect was armed with a “Glock pistol, two magazines with 10 rounds each, pepper spray, a tactical knife and burglary tools,” according to a court filing.
It’s noteworthy that the draft leaked in early May showed a preliminary vote of 5-4 in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade. In Friday’s ruling, however, the final vote was 6-3. Chief Justice John Roberts, never a reliable conservative, shifted his vote in the interim.
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I’ve never understood the lefts devotion to the idea of killing the unborn. As the father of two adopted children, I am forever grateful to those two birth moms who carried their offspring to term and heartbrokenly gave them up (to me) for adoption. As difficult for them as that was, I can only imagine the greater pain of their having abortions.