Read the Dissent From the Case That Overturned Roe v. Wade

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Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them.”In May, a draft of the , written by Justice Samuel Alito, leaked, showing that the Court had voted to overturn Roe and Casey. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives," Alito wrote.

In response, the liberal Justices' dissent is nothing short of scathing, very clearly outlining their disapproval of the Court's reversal of reproductive rights and the status of women as free and equal citizens in the United States. "As of today, this Court holds, a State can always force a woman to give birth, prohibiting even the earliest abortions.

A State can thus transform what, when freely undertaken, is a wonder into what, when forced, may be a nightmare.”The dissent opens with a recap of the rights that were once guaranteed to women and people who can become pregnant by landmark abortion rights cases Roe v.

Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “Respecting a woman as an autonomous being, and granting her full equality, meant giving her substantial choice over this most personal and most consequential of all life decisions.