File:Scotus-initial-draft.pdf

Summary
US supreme court justice Samuel Alito's leaked first draft, dated 10th February 2022, of his opinion deciding Dobbs et al vs Jackson Women's Health Organization et al in favour of the petitioners, and published by https://politico.com on 2nd May 2022. If affirmed by any four of the other eight SCOTUS justices in summer 2022, Alito's opinion would overturn the historic 1973 Roe vs Wade decision giving American women the legal right to terminate a pregnancy. In the absence of a federal statute, abortion law would then devolve to state legislatures; this author's present understanding is that twenty-six states currently have laws prohibiting abortion on their books - but he is anything but confident about that. Nor does he have the slightest idea which states they are or what proportion of America's women would therefore be forced to travel out-of-state to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.