In 2020 Tomi Arayomi prophesied about the current furor of the leaked documents from the US Supreme Court. These documents show that the historic case maybe set aside. The justices in an initial draft majority opinion are set to overturn the ruling of Roe versus Wade. This landmark case has set the tone for subsequent rulings on the right to abortion for almost fifty years in the USA.
On January 22 1973 in a 7-2 vote the Court ruled that unduly
restrictive state regulation of abortion was unconstitutional. Justice Harry A. Blackmun wrote in a majority
opinion that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most
instances violated a woman’s constitutional right of privacy, which it found
to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment (i.e. “nor shall any state deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law”).
The leaked draft written by Justice Samuel Alito states, “Roe
was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was
exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far
from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have
enflamed debate and deepened division. It is
time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s
elected representatives”
This ruling was drafted in February and
its immediate impact would be an end to a federally constituted protection of
abortion rights and let each state decide to either bring an end to it or
modify it. Chief Justice John Roberts of the Court has lamented the breach of
the Court’s confidentiality and that this would not compromise the integrity of
operations in the institution. He also said that an investigation would be conducted.
The justice also emphasized that the draft opinion “does
not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on
the issues in the case.”
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