Here's what the Supreme Court justices said in today's abortion ruling - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : As even the Casey plurality recognized, 'abortion is a unique act' because it terminates 'life or potential life.'
45% :The Constitution does not guarantee the right to abortion, even under Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause"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 Fourteenth Amendment.""Guided by the history and tradition that map the essential components of our Nation's concept of ordered liberty, we must ask what the Fourteenth Amendment means by the term 'liberty.'
43% : "The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.
43% : Because the Constitution is neutral on the issue of abortion, this Court also must be scrupulously neutral.
42% : And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right.
41% : Here are some key passages from the majority opinion striking down Roe, from the concurring opinions, and from the dissenting opinion:"Abortion presents a profound moral question," Alito stated in the ruling.
38% : The Constitution is 'neither pro-life nor pro-choice,' so the court shouldn't be either"On the question of abortion, the Constitution is therefore neither pro-life nor pro-choice.
37% :Abortion is different from other rights the court has recognized because abortion destroys "fetal life""Roe's defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called 'fetal life' and what the law now before us describes as an 'unborn human being.'"The court doesn't have to observe stare decisis, the doctrine that calls for prior decisions, or precedent, to be followed in most instances"Stare decisis ... does not compel unending adherence to Roe's abuse of judicial authority," Alito wrote.
37% : Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."

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