The media company Politico made public a draft opinion of SCOTUS on abortion.
Here's a brief summary taken from Politico:
For Debate:
1. Do you agree with some of the arguments above and that it should lead to abortion being a decision made by states as opposed to being made at a federal level?
2. What factors would you go by to make this decision?
Here's a brief summary taken from Politico:
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 — Planned Parenthood v. Casey — that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
A George W. Bush appointee who joined the court in 2006, Alito argues that the 1973 abortion rights ruling was an ill-conceived and deeply flawed decision that invented a right mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and unwisely sought to wrench the contentious issue away from the political branches of government.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision....”
- Justice Samuel Alito in an initial draft majority opinion
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision....”
The overturning of Roe would almost immediately lead to stricter limits on abortion access in large swaths of the South and Midwest, with about half of the states set to immediately impose broad abortion bans. Any state could still legally allow the procedure.
For Debate:
1. Do you agree with some of the arguments above and that it should lead to abortion being a decision made by states as opposed to being made at a federal level?
2. What factors would you go by to make this decision?