Supreme Court Decides Planned Parenthood v. Rounds

Today the Supreme Court decided the case of Planned Parenthood v. Rounds and in a 5-4 decision decided to strike down the South Dakota law mandating speech that doctors were forced to make to their patients. Justice Brier wrote the majority opinion focusing on the language in the statue that says “a fetus is a separate and full human being”. Justices Sutter, Kennedy, Ginsberg and Stevens joined this opinion. Justice Scalia wrote the main dissenting opinion with stating that the majority ignored a vast majority of the precedent on the issue, including mentioning Roe v. Wade in his opinion. Justices Roberts and Alito would sign onto this opinion except for this statement. Justice Thomas would write a separate dissenting opinion focusing on the fact that the government shouldn’t force speech but that he agrees with the rest of the statue