U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; rules abortion not a constitutional right

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Only one of those clinics remain open, Planned Parenthood, which moved to a new facility that anti-abortion activists continue to picket.
46% : Still others in a third group think that abortion should be allowed under some but not all circumstances, and those within this group hold a variety of views about the particular restrictions that should be imposed." "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.
44% : The majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, established that a women's right to abortion was protected by a constitutional right to privacy, based on the viability of the fetus.
41% : A leaked draft opinion that was published on May 2 foreshadowed today's 6-3 vote (Chief Justice Roberts concurring in judgment only) to overturn Roe v. Wade and a related case that protected the right to abortion, the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
40% : "Others feel just as strongly that any regulation of abortion invades a woman's right to control her own body and prevents women from achieving full equality.
38% : The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
38% : At the time of the Roe ruling, 30 states prohibited abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
37% : Alabama in 2019 passed a near-total ban on abortion that had been put on hold.
36% : 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." "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.
34% : Some believe fervently that a human person comes into being at conception and that abortion ends an innocent life," Justice Samuel Alito writes in today's majority opinion.
32% : "Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.

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