A leaked draft opinion suggests that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Shortly after the document was published, a meme began circulating that falsely claims President Joe Biden has “[s]topped abortion.”
Politico published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would — if adopted — overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made access to abortion legal across the country.
Within a day, a meme started circulating on social media claiming that President Joe Biden, who is in his second year in office, had “[s]topped abortion in 2 YEARS.” That’s wrong in a few ways. We’ll explain.
First of all, the opinion is a draft, not a final ruling. Nothing has changed yet. Roe v. Wade still protects the right to an abortion until the point of viability, which is when the fetus could survive outside the uterus.
If the court does overturn Roe v. Wade, access to abortion would be up to each state, which would likely lead to a patchwork of laws across the country. As we’ve explained before, advocacy and research groups have estimated that about half the states would be likely to ban or severely restrict abortion.
In a statement issued the day after Politico published the document, the court said, “Justices circulate draft opinions internally as a routine and essential part of the Court’s confidential deliberative work. Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court...
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