In May of 2022, a draft of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization leaked, letting the public know that abortion rights as they were previously known were about to be a thing of the past.
As made clear in that draft, written by Justice Alito, it was specified that they'd determined it was "time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," effectively overturning Roe v. Wade. Split debates over the pending ruling broke out in the news cycle after the leaked document was published by Politico, quickly followed by finger pointing over who could have been responsible for leaking it. After a lengthy investigation, the Supreme Court still doesn't know.
