Roe vs. Wade has been overturned.
In a 6-3 decision authored by Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the right to an abortion was NOT in the U.S. Constitution. [Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a concurring opinion that said he would not have voted to overturn Roe.]
Read the decision here: 19-1392_6j37(1)
The Wisconsin governor and attorney general candidates reacted:
Abortion is not and never was health care. Tony Evers has radically fought for killing babies in the womb without exception — that's barbaric. https://t.co/kNUpRxh1BQ
— Rebecca Kleefisch (@RebeccaforReal) June 24, 2022
The Constitution was designed to protect Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The issue of abortion has been returned to the American people, where it should have always been. https://t.co/Sk0geJF943
— Kevin Nicholson (@KevinMNicholson) June 24, 2022
My statement on today's decision. pic.twitter.com/cweY1sIBao
— Tim Michels (@michelsforgov) June 24, 2022
Today’s decision is a win for life and the rule of law. I know some people will be upset with this decision and I’m asking everyone to remain peaceful if you chose to exercise your constitutional right to protest. Violence and threats will not be tolerated and (1/4) https://t.co/xL4fhaS3HD
— Eric Toney (@EricJToney) June 24, 2022
Kaul’s a liberal politician beholden to the woke mob that wants to defund the police and abuse the Department of Justice to push their Leftist agendas. By refusing to enforce the law, Josh Kaul has failed the fundamental requirement of serving as attorney general. (3/4)
— Eric Toney (@EricJToney) June 24, 2022
https://twitter.com/AdamforAG/status/1540345188186570752
The landmark decision was released on June 24, 2022, a Friday. It now leaves the issue up to the states.
The court found:
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition’ and ‘implicit in the concept of ordered
liberty.’ Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U. S. 702, 721 (1997)
The right to abortion does not fall within this category. Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law.
Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the
States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy.
The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of ‘liberty.’ Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate
sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before us describes as an ‘unborn human being.'”
