the issue of pres dent. let me read you from the majority opinion. he writes the dissent argues that he with have abandoned stare decisis and we have done no such thing. with sorrow for this court but more for the millions of american women who have lost a fundamental constitutional prek. we dissent. jennifer rogers, run question is how broadly this impacts not just abortion rights but other rights. our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no ore right. nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt or on precedents that do not concern abortion. there are better than me, many rights like a right to privacy that are not referenced at all that people have come to enjoy and believe are part of their
the court is not to define the moral choice for every one. they might disagree with it, roe, and they did disagree with roe but it had become so much a part of american society and american law and was rooted in the constitution in terms of their minds that that s why it involved being upheld. since the p1973 court there s opinion 15 new justices on the bench. nine of them went along with this. some a little bit reluctantly like sandra day o connor. many robustly because it has been part of precedent but only six broke off and five of them are still with us. that s the point we have got right now. this is such a different court that america is going to have to get accustomed to. the three trump appointees are
only in their 50s. on a whole host of decisions. we saw on guns yesterday. this is the desire decision. i want to read a quote from the majority opinion here written by justice. he writes roe was wrong from the start. its reasoning was exceptionally weak and the decision has had damaging consequences. far from bringing about a national settlement, roe and casey have inflamed debate and deepened division. in fairness, i ll read from the dissenting opinion. justices write with sorrow for this court but more for the many millions of american women who have lost a fundamental constitutional protection. we dissent. if you can, jeffrey, describe the division on the court on this issue. i can t imagine a more stark one. it really goes to the
it s a historical moment. standby. i want to get to jessica schneider outside of the court with more. jessica, what is the opinion from the court? reporter: the court issuing that landmark ruling that this nation has been bracing for and the supreme court has overturned roe v wade. they have eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion and at first glance this opinion is very similar to that draft opinion that we saw leaked about a month and a half ago at the beginning of may. what we re seeing at first glance here is that this is a 5-4 decision. this is an opinion written by justice samuel aletto joined with the other conservatives. the chief justice john roberts not joining in the opinion but joining in the judgment meaning he agrees that the mississippi 15-week abortion ban should be upheld but not agreeing with there sweeping proclamation that
experiment of what it s like to have a right taken away for millions of people that they expected to have and understood sto to have and decades. how the country responds to that, i don t know. states are responding. the missouri attorney just signed an opinion in the last few minutes that will end abortion in that state. this is something we have been discussing on this broadcast. a number of states have trigger laws that would go in effect. now going into effect as a result of this decision. this has tremendous imply kags for perhaps two dozen states around the country. yeah, absolutely. i was struck by you were reading from the opinion he talks about how roe has, in his opinion, exacerbated the political divide on the issue of abortion but the data that we have on public opinion as it relates to abortion just does not bear that