Justice Thomas says leaked opinion destroyed trust at the Supreme Court - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The leak of the opinion, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, was "like kind of an infidelity," Thomas said.
44% : "Although a state may permit abortion, nothing in the Constitution dictates that a state must do so."
43% : In the intervening decades, Thomas frequently voiced opposition to constitutional protection for abortion.
41% : The next year, he dissented in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the majority reaffirmed the core of the Roe decision.
39% : "Nothing in our Federal Constitution deprives the people of this country of the right to determine whether the consequences of abortion to the fetus and to society outweigh the burden of an unwanted pregnancy on the mother," he wrote in a 2000 dissent.
38% : On Friday, he said opposition to his nomination in 1991 was "by those people who were trying to keep me off the court over abortion."

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