Is This the End of Roe v. Wade? What Would a SCOTUS Decision Mean for Reproductive Health?
The U.S. Supreme Court will vote to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed abortion rights half a century ago, according to a draft opinion obtained by Politico.While the draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, isn’t final and could still change, it is an unequivocal rejection of the premise that there is a federal constitutional right to abortion, the tenet at the heart of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which was reaffirmed by the court in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision.The Supreme Court confirmed that the leaked draft is “authentic.”“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes in the draft.“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”The Supreme Court was expected to officially…