Politico is reporting that the US Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe versus Wade, the landmark decision that legalized the killing of preborn humans in the country. The decision was leaked in an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

The decision was a result of the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization hearing oral arguments in December that made its way to the Supreme Court from the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court.

A source familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices. The three Democratic-appointed justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – are working on one or more dissents, according to Politico.