An early draft of Justice Alito's opinion was leaked from the Supreme Court.

That's a big deal.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

This is the point.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of a draft opinion for Supreme

Court Justice Samuel Alito in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case.

Justice Alito's opinion is important, and it was briefly explained on the Breakpoint podcast by

Aaron Hawley of Alliance Defending Freedom. Here's Aaron. So the opinion sort of has a couple of parts.

Looks first, you know, is there any historical right to abortion? Is it deeply rooted in our

nation's tradition and history? That answer is clearly no. Then the opinion

talks about stare decisis and the idea basically is, you know, even if Roe is wrong, even if Casey is

wrong, should we still uphold them anyway? And Justice Alito says clearly no, that there's not the sort

of reliance interest that would justify that. And one thing Justice Alito's opinion focuses on

is the damage that the so-called

right to abortion and the court's finding of it in Roe and Casey have done to this country. So it's been

damaging to our democracy. It's damaging to our institutions and to the court. And so there's no

reason to stick to it. To listen to the full conversation with Aaron and Ryan Anderson of the Ethics and Public

Policy Commission, visit breakpoint.org. That's breakpoint.org. Or subscribe to the

Breakpoint podcast. I'm John Stone Street.