OAKLAND, Calif. - The U.S. Supreme Court plans to strike down Roe versus Wade, overturning abortion rights, according to a draft majority opinion obtained by Politico.
The outlet reports no draft decision in the court's modern history has ever been publicly disclosed while the case was still pending.In the opinion, Justice Samuel Alito says the 1973 landmark decision guaranteeing constitutional protections of abortion rights, must be overruled.
Alito, a nominee of former president George W. Bush, went on to criticize the 1992 decision from Planned Parenthood versus Casey, which upheld the right to an abortion."Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.
It's reasoning was exceptionally weak. And the decision has had damaging consequences," Alito wrote."We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," the draft opinion states.