Roe v. Wade

Court's move will allow more than half of states to ban abortion, with an immediate and enduring impact on tens of millions of Americans.

A majority of members of the House of Representatives support an abortion rights statute, as does the White House. That leaves just 49 Democrats, far short of the support needed to pass such a measure. Michigan has a pre-Roe ban that is currently the subject of a court challenge. Even so, new abortion bans will make the US one of just four nations to roll back abortion rights since 1994, and by far the wealthiest and most influential nation to do so. Public opinion favors such statute – 85% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances. Historically, the court has overturned cases to grant more rights.

The high court rejects key rulings in stark reversal of bodily autonomy protections.

“Now you’re going to see anti-abortion groups in the states give us a sense of, ‘What does it actually mean to be pro-life?’ Does it mean you just put people in jail for [performing] abortions or having abortions, or is there more to it than that?” According to Guttmacher, more than half of all abortions are performed with medication abortion, a two-drug regimen that can be taken at home and in many cases obtained by mail. Patients also have faced long wait times in overstressed medical systems, after Texas implemented a ban on abortions at six weeks of pregnancy last year. Roughly 62 per cent of American women live within 10 miles of an abortion clinic. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the treatment for use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “The Supreme Court expressly took away a constitutional right for the American people,” he said. In 2022, a wave of anti-abortion legislation in Republican-led states anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision proposed eliminating abortion access in most cases and criminalising abortion care by making it a felony for providers to see abortion patients. “They didn’t limit it. Justice Alito’s opinion states that abortion rights are not “rooted in the nation’s history and tradition” and not “mentioned” in the Constitution, therefore illegitimate, though that list, which even he acknowledges, is extensive – including the right to obtain contraception or marry a person of another race or sex. Writing for the court’s majority on the 5-1-3 decision, conservative Justice Samuel Alito claims that the Roe decision was “egregiously wrong from the start” and its arguments so “exceptionally weak” and “damaging” that they amounted to “an abuse of judicial authority.” A decision from the nation’s high court on 24 June marks a stark reversal of abortion rights protections that could force women to carry pregnancies to term or seek care in states or countries where it is protected, ending 50 years of federal protections for abortion access and leaving it up to states to determine whether to ban the procedure – which will quickly become criminalised or effectively outlawed in roughly half the US.

In the decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the justices of the Supreme Court upheld a state law in Mississippi that bans abortion after 15 weeks. They ...

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and ...

Those democratically elected bodies are now free to debate and regulate abortion as they see fit, as happened throughout American history before the Supreme Court federalized the issue. Chief Justice John Roberts filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. The opinion, in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. The decision does not ban or criminalize abortion, nor does it recognize an unborn child’s constitutional right to life. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority,” the opinion states. The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v.

Multiple musicians have shared their reactions to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade today (June 24).

Wade being overturned: “I think it’s quite scary to see how far backwards we’re going in a lot of ways. the Supreme Court just ended a constitutional right to obtain an abortion, saying it should be left to each state to decide, this is horrible! They are all radical traditionalist Catholics and are shoving America ever further to the right. just because you’re not an American citizen does not mean the overturning of Roe V Wade is none of your business. “Of course, this is for every mother and every woman and her right to choose whether she is a mother or not,” Talbot said. People should have the FREEDOM to choose.