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“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” a syllabus of the opinion said.
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In a decision released Friday, the justices voted 6-3 to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks. The reasoning for the opinion came down to a 5-1-3 split, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority ruling overturning Roe, while Chief Justice John Roberts concurred in his own opinion but wanted a narrower ruling that focused on upholding Mississippi’s ban. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.
“Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws,” the dissenters wrote, “one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens.”
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The justices in the minority also criticized the majority’s “cavalier approach to overturning this Court’s precedents.”
Read the full 213-page opinion below:
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