The Supreme Court’s decision to let states regulate the right to an abortion means “‘women will die,’” a top ABC News reporter told an apoplectic “This Week” anchor Martha Raddatz Sunday.
Raddatz opened the show lamenting Friday’s decision by the high court, which struck down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had made abortion a federal right. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the law was never constitutional, and states were the proper regulators of abortion.
“‘On Friday morning, women in this country, like they have for nearly 50 years, woke up with a constitutional right to abortion, a right enshrined by the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed again and again,’” Raddatz said. “‘But just after 10 a.m. on Friday, a legal earthquake, the court stripped women of that fundamental right.’”
ABC's Raddatz opened This Week lashing out: "On Friday morning women in this country like they have for nearly 50 years woke up with a constitutional right to abortion…But just after 10:00 A.M. On Friday a legal earthquake, the court stripping women of that fundamental right." pic.twitter.com/2RkWpSZTfK
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Raddatz, who famously was brought to near tears after former President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, said the ruling means states can outlaw abortion.
“Abortion is now a matter for the states and Congress, a decision for voters and their elected leaders rather than between a woman and her doctor,” she said.
Senior national correspondent Terry Moran said, “women will die because of this ruling.”
“It changes the status of American women as citizens of the United States and as citizens of their states,” he said.
Several states, including Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, have “trigger bans” in place that made abortion illegal as soon as Roe was reversed. Five more, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, and Iowa, have passed similar laws only to have them struck down. With Roe reversed, those states could reimpose the laws, with them taking immediate effect.
Pro-abortion demonstrators took to the streets Friday night, storming the Arizona statehouse, shutting down traffic in Los Angeles, vandalizing buildings and cars in Seattle, and protesting in Washington and New York. But Raddatz noted that a May leak of Alito’s draft opinion might have dissipated much of the outrage by making Friday’s decision seem like old news.
Source: Dailywire
