The leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which has sent shock waves across the United States, indicates that a majority of Supreme Court justices will likely overturn the constitutional right to an abortion granted in Roe v. Wade. Employing unusually harsh language, Alito declared that “Roe and Planned Parenthood v.Casey must be overruled” because of the decisions’ “abuse of judicial authority.” “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote, and its “reasoning was exceptionally weak.” He also asserted that neither abortion nor privacy is mentioned in the text of the Constitution,...
