The bombshell dropped on a Monday night. The Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that swept aside all 50 states’ abortion laws and legalized the procedure throughout the country.

A draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito leaked to Politico, which published the story on May 2. In it, Alito unashamedly rejected the court’s abortion jurisprudence in both Roe and the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in a document marked as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”