"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled." Access to legal abortion in America could be severely limited if an alleged draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, leaked to Politico, pans out. The draft opinion—penned by Justice Samuel Alito and dated February 10, 2022—goes much further than many were expecting in a case concerning Mississippi's ban on abortion at 15 weeks.
"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," Alito writes in the leaked document, labeled "Opinion of the Court."
