Read the Supreme Court’s Full Ruling on Abortion Rights

All six Republican-appointed justices voted to uphold Mississippi’s ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and five went further and overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right it established. Justice Samuel Alito was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett in the majority opinion of the Supreme court. Chief Justice John Roberts said he would have stopped short of toppling Roe completely.

Alito wrote of Roe:

Roe was on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided… Wielding nothing but “raw judicial power,” the Court usurped the power to address a question of profound moral ...