House Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately rebuked the decision, calling it a 'slap in the face to women.''The radical Supreme Court is eviscerating Americans' rights and endangering their health and safety,' the California Democrat said. 'Today the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman's right to make their own reproductive health decisions.'
'Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party and their supermajority on the Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers,' she continued. 'With Roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical Republicans are charging ahead with their crusade to criminalize health freedom.'
'In the Congress, be aware of this, Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban,' Pelosi warned.
The White House announced that President Joe Biden will make a speech on the Dobbs decision at 12:30pm Friday.
Tensions over the future of abortion rights in the country have been running high since a draft opinion of Dobbs was leaked - and showed that the high court's conservative majority was poised to push whether abortion was legal back to the states.
The 6-3 conservative majority made good on what the draft said, with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer dissenting. Chief Justice John Roberts concurred. Conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas also filed concurring opinion.
'Guided by the history and tradition that map the essential components of the Nation's concept of ordered liberty, the Court finds the Fourteenth Amendment clearly does not protect the right to an abortion,' the decision, penned by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, said.