Former President Donald Trump on June 24 praised the Supreme Court after a majority of justices overturned Roe v. Wade, delivering the ability to regulate abortions back to states.
“This is following the Constitution, and giving rights back when they should have been given long ago,” Trump, a Republican, told Fox News.
The court’s 6–3 decision was in a case brought by the state of Mississippi against Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an abortion clinic.
Justices found that Roe was wrongly decided in 1973, as was a ruling in 1992 that reaffirmed Roe.
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” the majority said in its opinion….
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