(Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) An anti-abortion activist, who declined to be identified, chants during a rally in front of the Supreme Court on Jin Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Pro-life supporters celebrate outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022. A woman upset about the abortion decision, Friday, June 24, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Reporting by Mark Sherman of the Associated Press. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote. “We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.

Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned.

It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.Īlito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v.

The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step. The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump. Marine and accused accomplice charged with firebombing California Planned Parenthood

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