Politics

America’s Supreme Court is preparing to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion, according to the leaked draft of a majority opinion in a case that is before the court. Written by Samuel Alito, it argues that Roe v Wade, the ruling in 1973 that secured women’s right to an abortion, “was egregiously wrong from the start” and must be overruled. The court stressed that it was still deliberating and that the draft did not represent the final opinion of the justices. Still, the leak propelled abortion to the front of campaigning for the mid-term elections.