The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision ā Planned Parenthood v. Casey ā that largely maintained the right. āRoe was egregiously wrong from the start,ā Alito writes.
āWe hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,ā he writes in the document, labeled as the āOpinion of the Court.ā āIt is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the peopleās elected representatives.ā
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"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
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