See excerpts from leaked Supreme Court draft on U.S. abortion rights

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The leaked document that indicates the Supreme Court will change its understanding of abortion is 98 pages long, a third of which are an appendix to state laws to criminalize the practice in recent years.

Below are the main excerpts exposed by the draft of the conservative judge Samuel Alito.

The decision Roe v. Wade, from 1973, which guaranteed the right to abortion in the country, would have disrupted the political debate on the issue in the USA.

“At the time of the decision, 30 states still banned abortion at all stages. In the years prior to this decision, about a third of states had relaxed their laws, but Roe abruptly ended that political process. It imposed the same highly restrictive to the entire nation and effectively struck down all state abortion laws.”

The decision would be unconstitutional

“We believe that Roe and Casey [decisão que referendou Roe] must be cancelled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and that right is not implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”

Roe and Casey would have ignited public debate on the topic.

“[A decisão] Roe was blatantly wrong from the start. Her reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision had harmful consequences. And far from bringing a national agreement on the abortion issue, Roe and Casey ignited the debate and deepened the divide. [da sociedade]. It is time to pay attention to the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the elected representatives of the people.”

Abortion would not be rooted in the country’s history and values

“The inescapable conclusion is that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of outlawing abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of common law until 1973.”

The decision, however, would not prevent lawmakers from passing laws that would legalize the practice.

“Our nation’s historic understanding of ordained liberty does not preclude the people’s elected representatives from deciding how abortion should be regulated.”

The judge refutes the idea that women would not have ‘political power’

“Our decision returns the issue to Organs legislature and allows women on both sides, when it comes to abortion, to seek to affect the legislative process by influencing public opinion, lobbying legislators, voting and running for office. electoral or political power.”

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