Leaked Roe Ruling ‘Deeply Disrespectful To Women’: South Bay Rep.

PALO ALTO, CA — A South Bay congresswoman on Tuesday blasted the majority opinion overturning Roe. v. Wade in a leaked draft – since confirmed by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) said Tuesday on Twitter that the reversal of women's reproductive rights that have stood nearly a half century “is deeply disrespectful to women and a dangerous blueprint in terms of privacy.”

The leaked draft, first reported by Politico, is described by the outlet as “a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision — Planned Parenthood v. Casey — that largely maintained the right."

Alito wrote, "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start."

The court's ruling isn't expected until June or July, and the precise wording could change, Politico reports.

A vote to overturn Roe would send abortion access back to the states to decide. At least 26 are certain or likely to ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights policy group.

“If #RoeVWade is indeed struck down, it would be the first time in the history of the Court a constitutional right has been taken away,” Eshoo tweeted.

“It is deeply disrespectful to women and a dangerous blueprint in terms of privacy. This will have devastating impacts."