"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," a syllabus of the opinion said.
"The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment," Alito wrote. "That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition' and 'implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.
Justice Roberts joined the majority.
“…at 12 weeks the “unborn human being” has “taken on ‘the human form’ in all relevant respects.” §2(b)(i) (quoting Gonzales v. Car- hart, 550 U. S. 124, 160 (2007)). It found that most abor- tions after 15 weeks employ “dilation and evacuation proce- dures which involve the use of surgical instruments to crush and tear the unborn child,” and [the legislature] concluded that the “intentional commitment of such acts for nontherapeutic or elective reasons is a barbaric practice, dangerous for the maternal patient, and demeaning to the medical profes- sion.”
Going through the opinion I find it methodical in pointing out the logical defects in Roe and Casey.
It’s pretty irrefutable that Roe never should have been decided.
In plain English no less.
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