Following weeks of speculation after a leak revealed that Roe Vs. Wade would be overturned, the supreme court released it’s decision, doing just that. The five decade old rule, had suggested that the “right” to an abortion was specifically guaranteed, and protected by the U.S. constitution, and so therefore, was subject to federal protection. The overturning of that ruling, now leaves the matter to each individual state.

In the majority opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito states:

Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.

The case was back to the supreme court after the lone abortion clinic in Mississippi had successfully sued the state at the district court over it’s 15-week abortion ban. After The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the ruling, Mississippi took their case to the supreme court. This time, their target was Roe V. Wade itself.

Mississippi had made the case that Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were not constitutional because the right to abortion had “no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition.”

The supreme court now agrees, also adding to it’s statement, that Roe was “on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided.”

Alito was joined in the majority by justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Chief Justice John Roberts was content with keeping the Mississippi law in place, but stopped short of overturning Roe altogether.

The three liberal judges on the bench, all dissented.

The decision to overturn Roe was immediately followed by several states banning abortion, with more states likely to soon follow.

You can read the majority full opinion here:

And you can read a previous City Gate short list of pro-life movies to check out.