Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, leaves issue up to states

The Supreme Court has overturned its 49-year-old landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the US, upholding a Mississippi law banning the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy – and leaving the issue up to each of the 50 states.

The decision was handed down weeks after a draft version of the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico – sparking outrage and protests across the country.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote in that leaked decision, adding that “its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.”

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