New Delhi: Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide, Hailey Bieber took to Instagram to express her dismay after the US Supreme Court struck down the landmark 1973 ruling of Roe v. Wade. “Wow… I’m speechless. What an extreme loss and despair. This is really scary,” she wrote.
In May, Bieber was part of a group of about 160 young singers, actors, performers and influencers advocating for reproductive rights in a full-page ad in The New York Times and condemning the decision to reverse Row, Appeared after the draft opinion. Leaks from the court’s five conservative judges to the press, People reported.
The Supreme Court struck down the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade and ruled that states could regulate its practice. The decision was announced Friday by a majority of conservative judges. The ruling upholds Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, which collides directly with Roe’s requirement, which states that abortions are permitted until the point of fetal viability at approximately 24 weeks.
The Hill reported that more than two dozen states, primarily in the South and Midwest, are expected to tighten abortion access as a result of the fall, including 13 states with “trigger bans” that automatically or Will be effective through minimum effort by the state authorities. In 1973, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade case ruled in favor of pregnant women’s ability to have an abortion without unreasonable government restrictions.
The 1992 decision in the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case largely upheld the previous ruling. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court’s written opinion, said the US Constitution does not prevent states’ citizens from controlling or prohibiting abortion, and that the Roe and Casey decisions nullified that right.