Breaking News: SCOTUS overturns Roe, Casey in ruling - Arkansas Catholic - June 24, 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Casey v. Planned Parenthood is the 1992 decision that affirmed Roe.
48% :That point of viability -- when a fetus is said to be able to survive on its own -- was a key point in this case, because the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that states cannot restrict abortion before 24 weeks, or when a fetus could survive on its own.
47% : ""We pray that our elected officials will now enact laws and policies that promote and protect the most vulnerable among us," said the June 24 statement by Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, USCCB president, and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
43% : Alito, writing for the majority, said: "The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely -- the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment."U.S. Catholic bishops who have supported a reversal of Roe immediately reacted positively to the court's decision that comes at the end of this year's term.
42% : A friend-of-the-court brief submitted by the USCCB stressed that abortion is not a right created by the Constitution and called it "inherently different from other types of personal decisions to which this court has accorded constitutional protection."
40% : The Dobbs case focused on an abortion clinic in Mississippi opposed to the state's law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
39% : The ruling emphasizes that there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
36% : Referring to the court's major abortion decisions, the brief also warned that if the Supreme Court "continues to treat abortion as a constitutional issue," it will face more questions in the future about "what sorts of abortion regulations are permissible."
35% : In a 5-4 decision June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in this country.

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