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The Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating federal abortion protections that stood for almost 50 years. On Friday, June 24, the conservative majority released its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, confirming the outcome a leak made clear in May when Politico published a draft ruling by Justice Samuel Alito. Roe prohibited states from outlawing abortion before viability (around 24 weeks into a pregnancy) and after, in cases where pregnancy turned out to threaten the patient’s life or health. In Dobbs, Mississippi challenged those terms directly, asking the Court to uphold its 15-week ban by overturning that precedent and allowing individual states to decide whether and when abortion should be allowed. It complied: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” Overturning Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 decision that upheld the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court ruled, “The authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.”