In an unprecedented leak of an opinion of the United States Supreme Court, it appears that the Court has voted to vacate the landmark and notorious 1973 case Roe v. Wade, which invalidated States’ laws protecting the life of unborn children. On May 2, the online magazine Politico posted what purports to be a draft opinion by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a majority of the Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which asked whether the State of Mississippi violated the United States Constitution in passing a law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks of gestation.
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The extraordinary overruling of Roe v. Wade
The abortion wars in the US are not over, the battle lines have merely been redrawn
Ken Craycraft
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