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Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion

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The decision followed the leak in early May of a draft opinion showing that a majority of the justices were privately poised to take that step. 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.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Although the law conflicted directly with Roe v. Casey , the court’s long-standing decisions holding that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the court nonetheless allowed the law to go into effect on Sept.

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