A leaked first-draft majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court stating the Court will overturn Roe v. Wade has conjured images of a dark era in the United States when pregnant women who needed abortions were forced to turn to dangerous means.
Indeed, if Justice Samuel Alito's leaked opinion becomes the final say of the Court, once-guaranteed abortion rights mandated by the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 — which ruled that the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment protected a pregnant woman's right to have an abortion — would no longer exist. The leaked opinion came about as a result of SCOTUS deliberating the constitutionality of a Mississippi state law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
