Will Supreme Court decision on abortion topple other rights?
Four law professors discuss the Supreme Court decision that reversed Roe v. Wade, as well as whether the abortion ruling portends the loss of other rights.
Abortion may be only the first domino to fall among rights that Americans enjoy, legal experts say.
The Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health marked the end of the constitutional right to an abortion. A 5-4 vote overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, leaving individual states to determine the legality of abortion.
The majority opinion—which was leaked in Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in May—asserts that Roe v. Wade “was egregiously wrong from the start” and “is not deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions.” Roe’s reversal is undoubtedly a monumental moment in Supreme Court history, but does it portend the loss of other rights, as well?
Here, constitutional law experts and professors at NYU School of Law Rachel Barkow, Peggy Cooper Davis, Barry Friedman, and Noah Rosenblum break down the Supreme Court decision:
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