Pro-life Activists Think Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Roe Decision

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "So I think even some of the more absolute abortion bans -- sorry to disappoint pro-life folks -- but I suspect they'd be a little bit less absolute if Roe v. Wade were overturned just because ... they know that whatever the policy they write is actually going to be enacted.
53% : When the Supreme Court issued in 1973 the Roe v. Wade decision, Sanger's organization, Planned Parenthood, opened abortion clinics, following on Sanger's work with contraception clinics. "
48% : The court could also take aim at Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which held that states can't impose significant restrictions on abortion before a fetus becomes viable for life outside the womb.
45% : "Roe based a right to abortion on decisions protecting aspects of privacy under the Due Process Clause. ...
45% : And abortion is fundamentally different from any right this Court has ever endorsed.
44% : It may do so because "nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion," she wrote.
44% : "Abortion grew out of Darwinian eugenics to eliminate certain races in order to evolve a superior, quote, unquote, superior white race," he said.
43% : "In Roe v. Wade, and its deadly progeny Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court conjured constitutional fictions to justify the unjustifiable," Foster told The Epoch Times via email.
42% : Mississippi's recent call for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion lawful throughout the United States, has been warmly received by pro-life activists who say it could be the vehicle the court uses to finally right what they consider to be an egregious wrong.
42% : Those precedents held that "a state law restricting abortion may not pose an 'undue burden' on obtaining an abortion before viability."
42% : No other right involves, as abortion does, 'the purposeful termination of a potential life,'" Fitch wrote, quoting Harris v. McRae (1980). "
42% : "I don't think anyone would argue that the state of the law, basically, is that there's ... a constitutional right to abortion up till viability.
41% : "Our case has a very unique component to it because it puts abortion and the Supreme Court decisions directly on the foundation of racist eugenics to eliminate black and brown populations," Staver said.
38% : The defense of Roe's result appearing in the Casey decision "repeats Roe's flaws by failing to tie a right to abortion to anything in the Constitution.
38% : Even if the court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, that is, if it "literally said that there was no constitutional right to abortion, then it would be up to the states, except to the extent that Congress legislated in that area."
38% : If Roe falls, half the states in the country are poised to ban abortion entirely.
37% : "This case is made hard only because Roe v. Wade ... and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey," a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, "hold that the Constitution protects a right to abortion.
33% : The Court condemned millions to death by abortion and a toxic culture of moral indifference.

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