On Monday, Politico published a report of the initial draft majority opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito distributed inside the court as The Supreme Court voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
The piece by the media outlet rocked social media as the draft opinion is a full-throated, steadfast rejection of the 1973 decision, which secured federal constitutional protections of abortion rights.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Plenty of people had a reaction to this important news that affects every person in the country; here’s what some of those in the news media had to say about this report:
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