Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion.
On Twitter, Swift posted Michelle Obama’s statement about today’s Supreme Court decision, and she wrote, “I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are — that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.”
“I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are — that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that,” the singer, wrote via Twitter on Friday, June 24, shortly after the decision was announced.
After the Supreme Court sent shockwaves through America on Friday morning (June 24) by overturning Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old case that protected a woman’s federal right to have an abortion, many are feeling everything from heartbreak to anger to fear — including Taylor Swift.
Just one month after an opinion authored by Associate Justice Samuel Alito against the constitutional right to abortion was leaked to the public, the Supreme Court formally overturned the landmark case. The decision will affect the reproductive rights of women across the country, as the legality of abortion will now be decided on a state-by-state basis.
The singer retweeted former First Lady Michelle Obama's statement on the decision, which she called a "horrifying decision" that will have "devastating consequences." Swift added that she was "terrified that this is where we are" after decades of "fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies."
