After almost 50 years of settled legislation, the Supreme Courtroom seems primed to strike down the historic 1973 resolution of Roe v. Wade. Throughout her MSNBC present on Monday, a shocked Rachel Maddow shared her preliminary ideas and issues concerning the resolution being overturned.

“It’s surprising each in substance and additionally it is surprising by way of what it means concerning the courtroom, we and what it means concerning the stakes right here that somebody is keen to do that,” Maddow stated.

Roe v. Wade assured constitutional protections of abortion rights. Nonetheless, an preliminary draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and reported by Politico cites the choice was overturned. As was the following 1992 resolution of Deliberate Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed a girl’s proper to decide on.

“We maintain that Roe and Casey have to be overruled,” Alito wrote. “It’s time to heed the Structure and return the difficulty of abortion to the folks’s elected representatives.”

With a reported 21 states planning to ban abortion if the landmark case is in reality overturned, girls throughout the nation could discover they’ve misplaced the suitable select how or when they’re pregnant.

“This draft opinion saying that the Supreme Courtroom is about to clear the way in which only for that, signifies that we’re on the precipice of turning into a really completely different nation,” Maddow stated. “And our daughters and granddaughters reside in a really completely different world.”

As for what precisely that completely different world may be, Maddow’s visitor, Maryland congressman and Home judiciary committee member Jamie Raskin, believes it’d very properly seem like one thing from a well-liked Hulu collection.

“This may seem like an invite to have Handmaid’s Story-type anti-feminist regulation and laws everywhere in the nation,” he stated.

The Rachel Maddow Present airs weeknights at 9 p.m. on MSNBC.

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