Whenever the Supreme Court comes down with a particularly momentous decision, it’s customary to look at the majority opinion. After all, the majority makes the law.
for the first time since 1973. quoting justice breyer, kagan and so to my or, quote, with sorrow, for this court, but more for the many millions of american women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection, we dissent. already, nearly half the states in america have abortion bans or trigger laws, or pre-row laws on the books, ready to kick in, now that roe has been overturned. what recourse do women and teenagers and many nonbinary, or trans men, in those states now have? what can be done in the grassroots level in the states and in washington to get back when we have just lost? joining me now, terry o neil. former president of now, the national organization of women. alfonso brought lure, president of emily s list. terry, i want to start with you. there s a little bit more from that dissenting opinion by breyer, kagan and so to my or about the state restrictions on our borscht. this is what they say. quote, under those laws,
try to go in criminalizing every single aspect of women trying control their reproductive rights. we don t know what state will try to do. it s going to be a patch work and lead to laws where they try to really invade people s privacy in unprecedented ways and those will have to be challenged and work their way through the court. we re talk about a period of chaos where women not only can t be confident that they can get an abortion but can t even be sure they have the right to track their own cycles. to control other parts of their reproductive processes in a way. we have taken for granted not just for 50 years buttrying to opinion. it looks almost identical to the leaked opinion including the phrase that roe was egregiously wrong when it was decided. if this decision was egregiously
established in roe v wade and affirmed in casey. those opinions, there s been a constitutional right to an abortion from the supreme court. women have been able to get abortions. the state has not been able to restrict abortions up to the point of viability about 23 to 24 weeks. now this court up ending the past 50 years of history. looking very similar to that draft decision written by justice samuel aletto. he said that roe v wade was egregiously wrong. if it similar, which it appears to be, he ll talk about how there s no historical precedent for the supreme court upholding the right to an abortion and this should be left to the states. this is what this opinion will do. it will say this constitution does not guarantee the right to abortion and it s left to the individual states. one last thing, guys, justice