Roe v. Wade overturned by Supreme Court, groups denounce draft

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Roe v. Wade, the landmark law protecting abortion rights, was overturned by lawmakers and advocacy groups, with many applauding the document and others denouncing it.

After Politico reported on the apparent draft, which has not been confirmed or obtained by NBC News, abortion rights protesters were seen gathering outside the Supreme Court.

Plans like Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union slammed the apparent draft, with the abortion rights group s CEO calling it dangerous — a sentiment echoed on Twitter by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

The party of Lincoln and Eisenhower has now been devolved into the party of Trump, according to a joint statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Every Republican senator who supported Senator McConnell and voted for Trump Justices pretending that this day would never come will have to explain themselves to the American people, they said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said elected officials should codify the law immediately through legislation or end the filibuster in the Senate if there aren't enough votes to pass it.

Several Republican senators focused on who was behind the release of the document.

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas called on the Justice Department and the Supreme Court to use every investigative tool necessary in the search for the leaker, while Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said on Twitter that it was an unprecedented breach of confidentiality, clearly meant to intimidate. He said in a separate tweet that he said if this is the opinion of the court, it is a heck of an opinion. Voluminously researched, argued, and morally powerful. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List, said the organization will wholeheartedly applaud the draft if it becomes the court's final opinion.

The opinion, reportedly written by Justice Samuel Alito, shows at least five justices side with Mississippi in a case challenging the 1973 law.