{"id":37383,"date":"2022-06-24T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=37383"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:41:17","slug":"roe-v-wade-overturned-by-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=37383","title":{"rendered":"Roe v. Wade overturned by Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned<\/a> the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established abortion as a constitutional right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision by six of the Court\u2019s nine justices will allow each state to set its own abortion laws, leading to a patchwork of access throughout the country. The result is expected to be an uptick in the number of women traveling out of state for abortions, as well as unsafe abortions in states where the medical procedure will now be banned or heavily restricted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,\u201d Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his opinion, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Chief Justice John Roberts filed a separate opinion concurring in the judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely \u2014 the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,\u201d Alito continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be \u2018deeply rooted in this Nation\u2019s history and tradition\u2019 and \u2018implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent in the case for himself, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith sorrow \u2014 for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection \u2014 we dissent,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new status of abortion access on a state-by-state basis, Breyer wrote , \u201csays that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breyer later added, \u201cWhatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today\u2019s decision is certain: the curtailment of women\u2019s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-two states have laws that would restrict when and how a patient can terminate a pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute<\/a>, a reproductive health and rights organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin are among the 10 states that have pre-Roe abortion bans that are now expected to take effect. Thirteen states \u2014 including Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee \u2014 have laws enacted since Roe that will be \u201ctriggered\u201d by the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dozen states, including Maine, Maryland, Nevada and Washington, have laws that would protect abortion access up to the point of viability, usually 22 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Oregon and Vermont have laws that protect abortion access throughout a pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas targets birth control, same-sex marriage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Justice Thomas wrote his own concurring opinion, arguing that since the court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, which was grounded in the 14th Amendment and the due process clause, other cases that have been rooted in the same right to privacy could all be reconsidered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n