Roe v Wade

2022 - 6 - 24

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending right to abortion ... (NPR)

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a ...

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US supreme court overturns abortion rights, upending Roe v Wade (The Guardian)

Ruling in pivotal case Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization follows draft majority opinion leaked in May.

It could also damage efforts to advocate for the rights of women and girls globally. The right to privacy, liberty, equality are on the ballot. There is no room within the sanctuary of the patient-physician relationship for individual lawmakers who wish to impose their personal religious or ideological views on others.” So if a woman lives in a state that restricts abortion, the supreme court’s decision does not prevent her from traveling from her home state to the state that allows it. The Dobbs decision is one of the most consequential in generations. The Republican attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, celebrated the ruling and said: “Abortion is illegal here.” As Biden indicated, the decision could also herald restrictions in other areas of private life. South Dakota announced a special session to consider more restrictions. “It’s also extraordinary to do something like this so quickly, with no kind of advance notice.” The right of couples to make their choices on contraception. It will have profound, immediate and enduring consequences for tens of millions of women and other people who can become pregnant. He explicitly called to reconsider the right of marriage equality.

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The supreme court just overturned Roe v Wade – what happens next? (The Guardian)

Court's move will allow more than half of states to ban abortion, with an immediate and enduring impact on tens of millions of Americans.

A majority of members of the House of Representatives support an abortion rights statute, as does the White House. That leaves just 49 Democrats, far short of the support needed to pass such a measure. Michigan has a pre-Roe ban that is currently the subject of a court challenge. Even so, new abortion bans will make the US one of just four nations to roll back abortion rights since 1994, and by far the wealthiest and most influential nation to do so. Public opinion favors such statute – 85% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances. Historically, the court has overturned cases to grant more rights.

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US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade abortion ruling (RTE.ie)

The US Supreme Court has ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most ...

As a result of Friday's ruling, "from the very moment of fertilisation, a woman has no rights to speak of. The New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 reached the same conclusion. There were 930,160 US abortions in 2020. Twenty-six states are seen as either certain or likely now to ban abortion. The Supreme Court - in a 1992 ruling called Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey - reaffirmed abortion rights and prohibited laws imposing an "undue burden" on abortion access. The conservative-dominated court overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that recognised a woman's constitutional right to an abortion and legalised it nationwide.

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Roe v Wade: US supreme court strikes down abortion rights (The Irish Times)

Decision to overturn 1973 court ruling likely to render terminations illegal in many states.

The court’s three liberal justices wrote: ”In overruling Roe and Casey, this court betrays its guiding principles. “Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. I have been proud to stand with them throughout our long journey and I share their joy today.” — Additional reporting: Reuters It was upheld in a 6-3 ruling, powered by the court’s conservative majority. Before the Roe decision, many states banned abortion, leaving women who wanted to terminate a pregnancy with few options. The court’s three liberal members dissented.

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US Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade in major blow to abortion ... (Financial Times)

In the decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the justices of the Supreme Court upheld a state law in Mississippi that bans abortion after 15 weeks. They ...

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BREAKING: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in historic ... (The Catholic Telegraph)

“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and ...

Those democratically elected bodies are now free to debate and regulate abortion as they see fit, as happened throughout American history before the Supreme Court federalized the issue. Chief Justice John Roberts filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. The opinion, in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. The decision does not ban or criminalize abortion, nor does it recognize an unborn child’s constitutional right to life. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority,” the opinion states. The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v.

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Roe v Wade has been overturned. Here's what this will mean (The Guardian)

Millions of women are now less free than men, in the functioning of their own bodies and in the paths of their own lives.

But the story is not about the supreme court. The real story is not about the media who will churn out the think pieces, and the crass, enabling both-sidesism, and the insulting false equivalences and calls for unity. The real story is women, and the real story is the impossible question: how can we ever grieve enough for them? The story is not about the supreme court. But the story is not about who was right and who was wrong. The story is not, even, about the legal chaos that will now follow.

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