After a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which gives American women the right to an abortion, protests have broken out outside the court.
With hundreds gathered outside the court in Washington, DC, in anticipation of the hotly anticipated decision, pro-abortion protesters howled in outrage as the long-awaited opinion was released shortly after 10am EST on Friday.
The landmark decision left many people visibly disappointed, and they hugged one another after discovering that their rallies against plans to end federal access to abortion had been in vain.
Pro-life activists who had assembled outside the US Supreme Court in anticipation of the historic decision also cheered with joy.
As word of the 6-3 decision started to go through the packed throng, some anti-abortionists were overcome with emotion and could be seen sobbing outside the US Supreme Court.
Due to the historic decision, much of the US is now prepared for a violent weekend. If the leak from last month that suggested an abortion ban was in the works came to pass, pro-abortion demonstrators pledged to riot.
Hard-left progressives, many of whom are connected to Antifa, have already set a number of pro-life organizations on fire in the US and scrawled threats of additional retaliation on nearby buildings.
They were observed shouting and dousing one another in champagne.
They went outside. The 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, which gave US women nationwide the right to an abortion, has been overturned by the Supreme Court.
The opinion, which was issued on Friday morning by six of the court’s nine justices, immediately and vehemently sparked protests from pro-abortion activists across the US.
The statement read, “The Constitution does not grant a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are reversed; and the power to regulate abortion is reinstituted to the people and their elected representatives.”
Both Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden have vehemently opposed any efforts to overturn Roe, and they are anticipated to criticize Friday’s decision.
However, pro-lifers are ecstatic by the decision, which means that now each state can implement its own abortion regulations.
The historic ruling can be largely attributed to the one-term administration of former President Donald Trump, who was able to pick three conservative justices.
That changed the composition of the Supreme Court from having five conservatives and four liberals to six conservatives and three liberals, empowering the right-wing justices to issue precedent-setting decisions on topics like abortion.
After being given back control of the matter, 26 states are anticipated to impose nearly comprehensive prohibitions on abortion, with many passing harsh new pro-choice measures recently in anticipation of the end of Roe.
New York and California, two liberal states, have sworn to turn into “sanctuaries” that will accept women who can no longer get an abortion in their home states.
Conservative judges Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, voted in favor of the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and shocked the US establishment.
Sonia Sotomayer, Elena Kagan, and Stephen Breyer, three liberal judges, were against it. Breyer will step down from his position in July, and will be succeeded by leftist Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was just confirmed.
Thanks to a draft of the intended order that was leaked and originally provided to Politico in early May, Friday’s historic conclusion was not unexpected.
The first leak in the 232-year history of the Supreme Court reportedly sowed dissension and mistrust among the court’s justices.
The manner of the document’s release is the subject of an ongoing investigation.
There is still debate about who leaked the information: a conservative seeking to inspire any justices who were on the fence about supporting the historic opinion, or a leftist court employee hoping to incite enough indignation to overturn the decision.
The five justices who approved the leaked draft did not alter their positions, according to later reporting by The Washington Post, despite the uproar and demonstrations it sparked.
Conservative judges Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett’s residences were targeted by progressive pro-abortion protesters.
In addition, a Californian man was detained on suspicion of plotting to kill Kavanaugh for supporting the decision to overturn Roe.