This could lead to hundreds of preventable pregnancy-related deaths across the country, NBC News reported in May.
Now, reproductive rights will be decided by states, half of which are expected to place bans on the medical procedure, according to the Associated Press. It didn't come as much of a surprise after a draft written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked earlier this year. The 6 to 3 majority decision landed down the political lines of the justices. 'With sorrow - for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection - we dissent,' Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan wrote a joint dissent criticizing the majority decision. People are flocking to protest the decision that shatters nearly half a century of law. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion. Jackson Supreme Court ruling on Friday that overturned Roe v. Millions of lives will be immeasurably changed as states now have the ability to make abortion illegal.
