The Supreme Court has eliminated the “constitutional right” to obtain an abortion.
Among other things, this means no more federal taxpayer money to fund abortions.
The vote to overturn Roe vs Wade was 5-4.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito’s opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts did not join the opinion. He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe vs Wade.
“In March 1970, a pregnant Texas woman in Dallas County used the name “Jane Roe” to sue the local district attorney, Henry Wade, over a statute that made abortions illegal except to save the life of the mother.
The suit alleged that the law was unconstitutionally vague and violated Roe’s rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and 14th amendments.
A three-judge panel issued a judgment declaring the law unconstitutional but didn’t issue an injunction against Wade, who said he’d continue prosecuting doctors who performed illegal abortions.”