“Fox News @ Night” host Shannon Bream discussed the significance of the Supreme Court’s decisions about abortion on “Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy.”
"Roe said in 1973 that there was a right to privacy and that within that there was a right to abortion. And so, the court went through a long methodical process of looking through history and looking through tradition and said no. At least five of them, the majority said there is not a constitutional right under the U.S. Constitution to an abortion. This should go back to the states.
A police officer patrols in front of of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. MSNBC HOST ALI VELSHI PRAISES FOREIGN DICTATORSHIPS FOR THEIR ACCESS TO ABORTION, BASHES THE SUPREME COURT"This is one of the concerns that the late Justice Ginsberg had about the Roe v. Wade decision, that states were moving on their own in this conversation about abortion, for example. And when you short circuit that process, and take it away from the states, she worried that the legal underpinnings of Roe, in light of those conditions, were in danger.
Containers of the medication used to end an early pregnancy sit on a table inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, Oct. 29, 2021, in Fairview Heights, Ill."I do think if anybody thought this decision was going to end the discussion, I think what it did was reopen what was happening in the lead up to Roe, which was states wrestling with this.
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