{"id":35361,"date":"2022-05-03T08:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=35361"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:20:47","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-is-poised-to-overturn-the-landmark-roe-v-wade-decision-protecting-the-constitutional-right-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/u-s-supreme-court-is-poised-to-overturn-the-landmark-roe-v-wade-decision-protecting-the-constitutional-right-to-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision protecting the constitutional right to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The draft opinion<\/a>, which Politico said it got from a person familiar with the court\u2019s deliberations, was written by Justice Samuel Alito and has at least preliminary support from four other Republican-appointed justices, the publication said. The court is scheduled to rule by July in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoe was egregiously wrong from the start,\u201d Alito wrote, according to Politico. \u201cIt is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people\u2019s elected representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ruling overturning Roe would be transformational — legally, politically and socially. Twenty-six states would be likely to ban most abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that backs abortion rights. That shift would come even as countries elsewhere liberalize their abortion laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: Fetal Viability and the Fate of Abortion Laws in U.S: QuickTake<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News of the draft ruling comes one day ahead of primary voting in Ohio and Indiana. Overturning Roe could serve to roil midterm elections in November that were set to be a referendum on inflation, crime, immigration and Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disclosure of the draft opinion also marks an extraordinary breach of protocol for an institution that has long prided itself for being almost leak-proof. In the Supreme Court\u2019s modern history, no draft decision has been disclosed publicly while a case was pending. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe said the court had no comment. The White House had no immediate comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico said Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett voted with Alito in the private conference the court held after arguments in December. The publication said Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 ultimate vote was unclear and the court\u2019s three Democratic appointees were planning to dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looks Legitimate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A ruling overturning Roe \u201cwould deprive half the nation of a fundamental, constitutional right that has been enjoyed by millions of women for over 50 years,\u201d American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said in a statement. \u201cThe breach in protocol at the court pales in comparison to the breach in constitutional freedoms that the court is charged with upholding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neal Katyal, who served as President Barack Obama\u2019s top Supreme Court lawyer, tweeted<\/a> that the draft decision looks legitimate and likened<\/a> it to the Pentagon Papers — a massive document leak that helped turn the American public against the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A majority of the U.S. public has consistently supported keeping abortion legal in all or at least some cases since the mid-1970s, according to Gallup data, while only about one in five Americans say the procedure should be illegal under all circumstances. Other polls show similar trends. A Marquette University poll earlier this year found that 72% of Americans oppose overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn extremist Supreme Court is poised to overturn #RoeVWade and impose its far-right unpopular views on the entire country,\u201d Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tweeted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, a former law clerk to Roberts on the court, tweeted<\/a> that the leak was an \u201cassault\u201d by the left that was \u201cclearly meant to intimidate\u201d the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynn Fitch, the Republican Mississippi attorney general whose appeal called on the court to overturn Roe, tweeted<\/a> that the veracity of the linked opinion can\u2019t be verified. She said the state would \u201clet the Supreme Court speak for itself and wait for the court\u2019s official opinion.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opinion was labeled \u201c1st draft\u201d and included a stamp indicating it was circulated to the other justices on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supreme Court justices occasionally switch sides in cases after the initial vote. The justices are considering a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During arguments<\/a> Dec. 1, Roberts suggested interest in upholding the Mississippi law without explicitly overturning Roe and the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling. Casey said states can\u2019t impose significant obstacles on abortion before fetal viability, which the court suggested was around 23 or 24 weeks at the time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A move by the U.S. to limit abortion rights would mark one of the few global instances of a nation reversing course. In the past few years, several nations — notably in Latin America — have eased restrictions on abortions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The draft opinion, which Politico said it got from a person familiar with the court\u2019s deliberations, was written by Justice Samuel Alito and has at least preliminary support from four other Republican-appointed justices, the publication said. The court is scheduled to rule by July in the case. \u201cRoe was egregiously wrong from the start,\u201d Alito wrote, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":35363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/supreme-court-e1651591196412.jpg?fit=700%2C460&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35362,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35361\/revisions\/35362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}