Casablanca – By overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion, the United States Supreme Court ended today 50 years of abortion rights.
The decision occurred in the key case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the last abortion clinic in Mississippi fought the state’s efforts to restrict abortion after 15 weeks.
Dobbs’ case — which is considered the most important and contentious of the court’s terms — posed the most significant danger to abortion rights since Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, in which the Supreme Court upheld Roe v. Wade.
The court’s contentious yet expected decision provides individual states with the authority to enact their own abortion regulations without fear of violating Roe v. Wade, which has allowed abortions in the first two trimesters of pregnancy in the United States since 1973.
Abortion rights supporters instantly denounced the judgment, while abortion opponents celebrated their long-awaited victory.
Protesters flocked to the Supreme Court on Friday to express their displeasure with a ruling that would overturn decades of precedent in the United States.
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The decision is a big triumph for Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, who has unequivocally said that he believes Roe v. Wade should be reversed.
Since 1992, Thomas has openly announced that Roe v. Wade was a mistake and should be reversed. In his writings as a justice, he has explicitly attacked the 1973 court’s rationale, highlighting the need to reconsider the rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage
The overturning of the abortion decision comes a day after the Supreme Court reversed a century-old New York rule that restricted citizens’ ability to acquire a license to carry a gun outside of their homes.
According to The Guardian, this ruling is expected to trigger additional protests and rallies, as well as heighten debate regarding abortion inside and across states. It could also potentially derail the November midterm elections.
