A draft ruling leaked to Politico suggests the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, who legalized abortion in 1973

The draft of a Supreme Court opinion obtained Monday night by the Politico news portal suggests that the majority of the justices are in favor of annulling the

, who legalized abortion in 1973.

This is an unprecedented event because never before has an opinion of the highest court been leaked before reaching a final ruling.

Neither Noticias Telemundo nor our sister network NBC News have been able to independently verify the veracity of the Politico report, which, if confirmed,

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"[The case] Roe was terribly wrong from the start," said the draft by Judge Samuel Alito, a member of the Conservative majority.

"We hold that Roe and Casey should be overturned," he

adds, referring to the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v.

Casey, who affirmed Roe's case as a constitutional right to abortion services, but allowed states to place some restrictions on the practice.

"It's time to heed the Constitution and return the abortion issue to the elected representatives of the people."

This is a developing story.

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