BOSTON — Politicians and women’s advocacy groups are reacting to the unprecedented leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark law protecting abortion rights.
The draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., revealed that the high court’s conservative majority is siding with Mississippi in a case challenging the 1973 abortion rights law.
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