Roe v Wade is built on an implied constitutional right to privacy. 'Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion,' he writes.īut several legal scholars say that despite Justice Alito's qualifications, his reasoning could easily be applied to a range of other hard-won rights. It is, however, narrowly focused on reproductive rights.
His writing is peppered with attacks on the reasoning of his 1970s predecessors, labelling their decision 'egregiously wrong' and their arguments 'exceptionally weak'.
( Reuters: Evelyn Hockstein)īut Justice Alito's wording throughout the sprawling text is unusually aggressive. The Supreme Court draft opinion would throw out the landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights ruling that has stood for a half century.
