Trump celebrates overturning of Roe v Wade: 'This is following the Constitution'
WASHINGTON (TND) — Former President Donald Trump responded favorably to the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, which permitted unrestricted access to abortion across the country.
This brings everything back to the states where it has always belonged,” Trump said to Fox News. “This is following the Constitution, and giving rights back when they should have been given long ago,” he added.
Roe’s reversal resulted from the Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs v. Jackson centered around a Mississippi law banning the majority of abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Prior to Friday’s ruling, the law had not taken effect because lower courts declared it at odds with the precedent set by Roe and affirmed by subsequent rulings. However, after Friday’s ruling upholding the Mississippi law, the authority has been returned to each individual state.
When asked if he felt he had anything to do with Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, Trump told Fox: “God made the decision.”
The former president added that he believed “in the end, this is something that will work out for everybody.”
Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged in the Court’s prevailing opinion that “Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.”
But he also noted “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion,” thus overturning Roe and another case affirming its precedent.
“We end this opinion where we began,” Alito continued in the Court’s opinion. “Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”
