The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, on Friday in a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito. We speak to attorney Kathryn “Kitty” Kolbert, who argued Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, which upheld Roe v. Wade. We also speak with law professor Michele Goodwin, whose recent op-ed for The New York Times argues that, contrary to conservative justices’ implication that abortion is not protected by the Constitution, critical amendments that abolished slavery have also secured rights for Black motherhood and reproductive freedom. Alito and other conservatives on the court have “a selective, if not opportunistic, reading of American history,” says Goodwin. “The ultraconservative justices have taken back the Supreme Court and, frankly, have imposed their own ideological biases against all the rest of us,” says Kolbert.

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