The Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortions for the first time in nearly 50 years.

New York Times: “The ruling will test the legitimacy of the court and vindicate a decades-long Republican project of installing conservative justices prepared to reject the precedent, which had been repeatedly reaffirmed by earlier courts. It will also be one of the signal legacies of President Donald Trump, who vowed to name justices who would overrule Roe. All three of his appointees were in the majority in the 6-to-3 ruling.”

“The decision, which echoed a leaked draft opinion published by Politico in early May, will result in a starkly divided country in which abortion is severely restricted or forbidden in many red states but remains freely available in most blue ones.”

Wall Street Journal: “The ruling, one of the most consequential in modern memory, marked a rare instance in which the court reversed itself to eliminate a constitutional right that it had previously created.”

The decision effectively ends abortion access for roughly 40 million women and girls in more nearly two dozen states.