This is a special edition daily article for Friday, June 24th, 2022.

It's written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins.

In a ruling that the Wall Street Journal is calling one of the most consequential in modern memory,

the Supreme Court has eliminated the constitutional right to abortion,

overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and returning the question of abortion's legality to the states.

The court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization upholds a law from Mississippi

that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

In its ruling, the court's conservative majority said that the Roe decision was egregiously wrong in recognizing a constitutional right to an abortion.

States now have broad latitude to regulate or prohibit abortion as they see fit. The case was decided

by a six to three margin with justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissenting.

The majority opinion was authored by Justice Samuel Alito. In response to the May 1st leak of

a draft Supreme Court opinion, I wrote a daily article discussing

questions that would become relevant if the court did in fact overturn Rome. Now that the historic

day has come, I wanted to respond immediately by updating and sharing that information and then

offering three biblical reflections. On Monday, we will discuss the ruling in greater depth

as we focus on the road forward for the cause of life. According to the Gutmacher Institute,

26 states have laws indicating that they intend to ban abortions. 13 have enacted trigger laws

that would ban abortion altogether if row were to be reversed.

Of this 13, four also have pre-row bans that could be enforced if the ruling was overturned.

Five other states that have not enacted trigger laws also have such pre-row bans.

In addition, 17 states have passed other bans or extreme limits

on abortion that could be enforced without row. Four of them are not included in the trigger

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