'Heartbreaking': Meadow Walker calls Roe v Wade overturn an 'ASSAULT' as she shares her abortion story
Meadow Walker, the daughter of late actor Paul Walker, has expressed her thoughts after Roe v Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court. The 1973 landmark judgment that gave rights and freedom to women to have abortion was made illegal on Friday, June 24, after six out of nine apex court judges ruled in its favor, leaving most women across the nation disheartened.
Meadow also felt the pain like other women as she took to Instagram to write, “Today marks a huge setback in history- a profound injustice to women across the United States. There are countless women who have struggled with making the decision to have an abortion.”
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She then went on to share her story of getting an abortion in 2020 as she said, “I too have battled with the choice but in 2020, when the world was collapsing during the pandemic, I sought an abortion. It is a very private and personal experience – the way it should be. I was lucky enough to have a great doctor who supported me through the debilitating process – with their help, I am able to be the happy and healthy person I am today.”
“Now, knowing even more women won't have the opportunity to seek safe termination and choose their bodies first is absolutely heartbreaking. In a world that constantly marginalizes females, this feels like the biggest assault of them all. Banning abortion doesn't prevent abortions, it prevents safe abortions," the 23-year-old added.
Veteran actress Rita Moreno has also shared her fear after the historic yet tragic ruling. The 90-year-old told Variety, “Hilary Clinton warned everybody about this. I’m not shocked because I saw it coming but I’m stunned,” before noting, “I think about the young girls. Taking it to the most extreme, girls who get pregnant because of rape or incest. Unfair isn’t a strong enough word, but it’s unfair. I’m sorry I’m not the most articulate today but I’m just shocked. We loud mouths are going to have to get busy. There are many of us. I’m thinking what are we going to do about this? If anything, this has reactivated us.”
Meadow Walker and Rita Moreno’s statements come after Justice Samuel Alito announced in a written statement, “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
“That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition’ and ’implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” he stated.
But Alito’s statement was blasted by three liberal judges, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, who said, “The majority would allow States to ban abortion from conception onward because it does not think forced childbirth at all implicates a woman’s rights to equality and freedom. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs.”