Tue Jun 28, 2022 – 4:00 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services Xavier Becerra held a press conference Wednesday previewing the Biden administration’s plans for responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade last week, leaving pro-abortion reporters in attendance less than enthused.
On Friday, the justices handed down the 5-4 decision to repudiate the 1973 precedent forcing all 50 states to permit elective abortions (6-3 to uphold the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban that provoked the case). “Roe’s constitutional analysis was far outside the bounds of any reasonable interpretation of the various constitutional provisions to which it vaguely pointed,” conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority decision. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
The ruling holds massive ramifications, both immediate and long term. More than 20 states currently have laws on the books that effectively ban abortion within their borders upon (or shortly after) Roe’s fall, from pre-Roe abortion bans that went unenforced to “trigger laws” designed not to take effect until the ruling activated them. In those states, abortion will now be
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