The project’s legal reasoning, if adopted by the court when it issues its final ruling by the end of June, could threaten other rights that Americans take for granted in their personal lives, according to professor Elizabeth Sepper. Wade of 1973 which legalized the procedure nationwide. The draft ruling, disclosed in a leak that prompted Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday to launch an investigation, would uphold a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and overturn Roe v. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s proposed opinion that would end recognition of a constitutional right to abortion could jeopardize other marriage freedoms, sexuality and family life, including birth control and same-sex marriages, according to legal experts.
