In a stunning breach of Supreme Court confidentiality and secrecy, Politico has obtained what it calls a draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would strike down Roe v. Wade. The draft was circulated in early February, according to Politico. The final opinion has not been released and votes and language can change before opinions are formally released. The opinion in this case is not expected to be published until late June.

A majority of the court privately voted to strike down the landmark abortion rights decision, according to the document, obtained by Politico. The release of the 98-page draft document is unprecedented in the court’s modern history. According to the draft, the court would overturn Roe v. Wade's holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The opinion would be the most consequential abortion decision in decades and transform the landscape of women's reproductive health in America.

Celebrated by supporters of abortion right and long reviled by critics, Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 establishing a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability, which most experts say occurs now at around 23-24 weeks of pregnancy. The decision was reaffirmed in 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. A majority of the court in that case replaced Roe's framework with a new standard to determine the validity of laws restricting abortions. The court said that a regulation cannot place an "undue burden" on the right to abortion, which is defined as a "substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability."

Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, has issued a statement. “The breach in protocol at the Court pales in comparison to the breach in constitutional freedoms that the Court is charged with upholding."

The Democratic House and Senate leadership statement said: “Several of these conservative justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation — all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century."

Polling shows that the majority of Americans — about seven in ten — oppose the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Still, it’s not clear whether the issue will motivate voters to the polls in this year’s midterms. In the five decades since Roe, abortion has tended to be more of a motivating issue for anti-abortion voters.

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When it comes to vaccinations, you can loudly hear an outcry of "my body; my right to do what I want". And that is considered acceptable.

But it seems that in America, "my body; my right" may soon no longer extend to a woman's reproductive rights. The government will instead control these decisions. When it comes to controlling American women, I suppose this move by the Supreme Court could be viewed as a step to fulfill the slogan to "make America great again." Perhaps part of the "again" in the slogan is to turn 50% of the American population into second class citizens solely based on their sex. This Nation obviously seems to be on the road of a backwards time warp. If so, American women may soon lose their constitutional rights to determine what happens to their own bodies.

However, illegality doesn't mean that abortions won't still occur for some...
BUT things will probably go back to how they used to be back in a time that I never knew.

Before Roe vs Wade: https://www.bustle.com/p/6-terrifying-facts-about-life-before-roe-v-wade-39116#:~:text=Before%20Roe%20v.%20Wade%2C%20women%20actually%20considered%20poisoning,women%20even%20burned%20their%20vaginas%20with%20potassium%20permanganate. Will a return to THAT be part of making "America great again"? Will taking away American women's Constitutional right to decide what happens with their own bodies help "make America great again"? Or maybe we need to continue even farther back in time and strip women of their constitutional right to vote, too??? Was that the time in history when America was "great"? I don't understand where our country is headed.

If women lose their constitutional right to control their own bodies, they will no longer be equal to men in America. Women’s freedom to choose — their jobs, names, lifestyles, and health care — have been hard-won in this country. Stripping women of their constitutionally granted, reproductive rights (made into law of the land almost 50 years ago) will once again result in multi-dimensional control of those who aren't men. That will only help make America less than "great".

In her 1993 confirm­a­tion hear­ing to join the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Gins­burg explained to the Senate Judi­ciary Commit­tee: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is cent­ral to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When Govern­ment controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human respons­ible for her own choices. In short, she is being treated differ­ently—and less than—a man."