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Today, a sensational leak shows that the US Supreme Court is set to overturn

Roe vs Wade. What happens now?

The Supreme Court hasn't struck down Roe vs Wade yet, but this week an unprecedented leak revealed that after almost 50 years, this landmark ruling is about to be overturned.

And that women in America will lose the legal right to have an abortion.

This could be the most consequential opinion in decades. Political reports the Supreme Court could be poised to strike down Roe vs Wade and its supporting precedence.

When the Guardian US's senior health reporter Jessica Glenser was last on today in focus six months ago, she told us it was a perilous moment for reproductive rights in America.

Reading the court documents now, she was flawed by the callous language.

I was shocked at how curt the reasoning was. It was so blunt, egregiously wrong, exceptionally weak, damaging in its consequences.

Those are really not words that you typically read in a Supreme Court opinion. So what was going through my mind immediately was that this is not just an enormously important decision, but one reasoned in a way that was very almost caustic.

From the Guardian, I'm not shying Iqbal. Today in focus, the US Supreme Court seems poised to throw out the right to an abortion.

What happens if Roe vs Wade is overturned?

Jessica Glenser, you're the senior health reporter for the Guardian US and when we last spoke on the show, we were talking about the erosion of reproductive rights in the US and whether or not Roe vs Wade might be overturned by the Supreme Court.

Now, this leaked document does say yes, that's exactly what's about to happen. Who wrote it and what does it mean?

This leaked document is a draft opinion that was written by Justice Samuel Alito and the reporting that went along with this document showed that five justices, the majority of nine members of the bench had voted in favor of it.

So there's one paragraph at the beginning of this decision that has been quoted widely because it's such a remarkable attack on precedent from the Supreme Court. That paragraph is Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.

Its reasoning was exceptionally weak and the decision has had damaging consequences and far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey, another important Supreme Court decision, have inflamed debate and deepened division.

And to roughly summarize what the document says is that Roe vs Wade should be overturned entirely. Now, all of that said this is a draft opinion.

So even if Roe vs Wade is eventually overturned for now, it remains the law of the land.

Just the Supreme Court has confirmed that this document is real and we'll get to the question of who might have leaked it and why. But first, can you explain to us why is this leaks so unprecedented?

At no time in the last 100 years, that's basically the modern era of the Supreme Court. Has there been a leak of this magnitude on such an important and controversial case?

There have been leaks in the past of, for example, a justice may have changed their vote or there's positioning around where someone may vote.

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