After 50 long years, the Supreme Court finally struck down on Friday the cases that created a right to the legalized, intentional killing of unborn children and prevented the states from restricting the procedure.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh ruled that Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were unsound decisions that improperly conferred a right to obtain an abortion in a 6-3 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts concurring. Nowhere in the Constitution, and nowhere in our nation’s history and tradition, is there such a thing as a right to terminate a pregnancy at any stage, the justices argued.
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