Protests erupted in response to extremist right-wing Supreme Court justices’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday.
,” Thomas wrote, claiming that the majority’s opinion today required the Court to “correct” those precedents to be more in-line with his and others’ conservative viewpoints.
The dissenting opinion, meanwhile, written jointly by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer, noted that a number of “draconian restrictions” already established in several states could become much worse in the future, given the conservative bloc’s newly imposed standards on abortion.
“Some States will not stop” with criminalizing abortion, the justices said. “Perhaps, in the wake of today’s decision, a state law will criminalize the woman’s conduct too, incarcerating or fining her for daring to seek or obtain an abortion. And as Texas has recently shown, a State can turn neighbor against neighbor, enlisting fellow citizens in the effort to root out anyone who tries to get an abortion, or to assist another in doing so.
“Most threatening of all,” the dissenting justices said, “no language in today’s decision stops the Federal Government from prohibiting abortions nationwide, once again from the moment of conception and without exceptions for rape or incest.”, who issued a statement demanding the end of abortion protections “in every state in the land.”
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