Leaked draft Supreme Court decision would overturn Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling, Politico says
The Supreme Court is poised to overturn the constitutionally protected right to abortion ensured by the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, according to a leaked initial draft of the new opinion obtained by Politico.
Politico noted that Supreme Court draft opinions are not set in stone, and that justices sometimes change their positions on a case after a copy of a draft is circulated among them. "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," the justice wrote in the draft published by the site.CNBC has been unable to confirm the authenticity of the draft opinion, which Politico said had been circulated among the justices in February, and to which the court's three liberal members, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, are writing dissents.
The Supreme Court ruling anticipated in Alito's draft also would be a monumental victory for religious conservatives, who for decades have pushed states to adopt laws restricting abortion rights, and to get the Supreme Court to undo the Roe v. Wade decision, as well as its 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which had further cemented a woman's right to end her pregnancy.
The highly respected Supreme Court news site SCOTUSblog tweeted: "It's impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin."
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