What does it mean for abortion and LGBTQ+ protections? May 3, 2022 On May 2, 2022, the news outlet Politico released a confidential draft Supreme Court majority opinion from February 2022 in the pending case of Dobbs v.
Jackson Women’s Health (JWHO). On May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed that the draft is authentic and launched an investigation into the source of the leak.
The draft majority opinion, were it to become law, is devastating. Penned by Justice Samuel Alito, the opinion proposes to overturn Roe v.
Wade (1973). It would roll back 49 years of Supreme Court precedents on the right to bodily autonomy, specifically the right to abortion.