The United State Supreme Court has officially overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court’s five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.
Roe vs Wade, ruling enacted in 1973, guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights.
This most recent case, which was heard by the Court in December 2021, centered on a Mississippi law banning abortion if the “probable gestational age of the unborn human” is more than 15 weeks.
This ruling comes after a draft decision document that signaled this outcome leaked on May 2.
