Supreme Court justices' past abortion views, in their own words and votes

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

And that's just what the court's conservative majority ended up doing Friday in a ruling likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

When the court heard arguments in the abortion case from Mississippi in December, it was clear to observers that there was substantial support among the conservatives for overturning Roe and a second decision that had established and reaffirmed a woman's right to an abortion.