Protest -- Keep Abortion Safe, Legal and Accessible.
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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.
In a 98-page ruling, including a 33-page Appendix, the Supreme Court has not just overturned the right to abortion, but also added another major wedge that will divide the country into states that still allow abortion and those that do not, and in the latter case, some which attempt to criminalize abortions of their residents who seek abortions in other states, or through prescriptions obtained by mail. Rather than making a universal national ruling, SCOTUS leaves the states to allow/deny abortion at any point from conception to birth. This will not be the end of the court's involvement, nor of the controversy that has become a litmus test for political allegiance, much as Alito may have wished it so.
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