California Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “we are going to fight like hell,” after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked on Monday evening.
After Politico reported on an initial draft written by Justice Samuel Alito that signaled the Court would overturn the landmark abortion case, Newsom promised “fury” and pledged to “fight like hell.”
“Our daughters, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers will not be silenced,” Newsom tweeted. The world is about to hear their fury. California will not sit back. We are going to fight like hell.”
According to Politico:
The draft opinion is 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. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Before Monday’s leak, legal scholars expected that the Court would overturn the near 50-year-old decision during the current term. In anticipation of the “inevitability,” Newsom promised in December that California would become a “sanctuary” for abortion patients.
“We’ll be a sanctuary,” Newsom said about abortion rights. “We are looking at ways to support the inevitability and looking at ways to expand our protections.”