The court’s decision doesn’t criminalize abortion at the federal level but returns jurisdiction to individual states.
New legislation surrounding the issue is also inevitable.
Alito was joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
It makes exceptions for medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality but not for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
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In October 2021, Mississippi appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear arguments.
“But, like generations before us, we’ll fight for each other.”
CNET’s Carrie Mihalcik contributed to this report.
