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Hochul: Supreme Court Ruling on Roe 'Repulsive at Every Level'
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The US Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and wiped out the constitutional right to abortion, issuing a historic ruling likely to render the procedure largely illegal in half the country and further polarize a deeply divided nation.
The court voted along ideological lines. All six Republican-appointed justices voted to uphold Mississippi’s ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and five said they would go further and overturn Roe and the constitutional right it established. Chief Justice John Roberts said he would have stopped short of toppling Roe completely.
Live Blog: Reaction and Analysis of the Supreme Court Ruling
As hundreds of protesters gathered outside the court, the emotional words from the justices echoed the national divisions over abortion. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said Roe “usurped the power to address a question of profound moral and social importance that the Constitution unequivocally leaves for the people.”
The court’s three Democratic appointees – Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- said the majority had relegated women to “second-class citizenship.”
The impact promises to be transformational. Twenty-six states either will or are likely to ban almost all abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that backs abortion rights. Thirteen have so-called trigger laws designed to automatically outlaw abortion if Roe is overturned.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito in the majority. The ruling tracks a draft majority opinion Politico obtained and published May 3.
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