In a scathing dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, liberal justices slammed the “draconian” opinion as a decision that would undeniably curtail women’s rights and turn back “their status as free and equal citizens.”
Nodding to some of those laws, the court’s liberal justices laid out how state legislatures could now effectively force women to endure pregnancies that could kill them or make them carry terminally sick babies to term.
They warned that, without a constitutional protection to hold them back, many states will surely go further — and could eventually target women receiving care, not just the doctors providing it, in legislation. “Today’s decision, the majority says, permits ‘each State’ to address abortion as it pleases,” they wrote. “That is cold comfort, of course, for the poor woman who cannot get the money to fly to a distant State for a procedure.”
“Either the mass of the majority’s opinion is hypocrisy, or additional constitutional rights are under threat. It is one or the other,” they wrote.
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