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Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe v. Wade Abortion Precedent

The announcement follows the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe v. Wade Abortion Precedent
Pro-life supporters celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 24, 2022. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
By Matthew Vadum
6/24/2022Updated: 6/27/2022
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The Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent that largely legalized abortion in the United States.

The court, in a 6–3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy and to overturn Roe. Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the court’s conservatives, but argued that he would have upheld the Mississippi law without taking the additional step of erasing the Roe precedent altogether.

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