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Preaching that sentiment, critics have gathered in cities across the country to protest the anticipated opinion, with some recalling Justice Sonia Sotomayor saying when the case was argued in December, \"Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? If people actually believe that it's all political, how will we survive?\"

Outside of the Supreme Court, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., blasted what she called \"an extremist U.S. Supreme Court\" seeking to \"impose their extremist views on all of the women of this country -- and they are wrong!\" she yelled to the crowd.

\"This will fall on the poorest women,\" she said. \"This will fall on those who have been raped.\"

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren reacts at a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court, after the leak of a majority opinion draft by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Washington, May 3, 2022.
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On Capitol Hill, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the opinion as written would be \"completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,\" while Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, fellow abortion rights moderate, called the leak \"absolutely reprehensible.\"

\"If it goes in the direction that this leaked copy has indicated, I will just tell you that it, it, it rocks my confidence in the court right now,\" Murkowski said.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had no sympathy for the two Republican senators, tweeting that they \"betrayed the nation’s reproductive rights when they were singularly capable of stopping the slide,\" adding, \"They don’t get to play victim now.\"

The leaked draft, confirmed by the court, coincides with the day of the first multi-state contest of the 2022 midterm season and as several states have already enacted restrictions on abortion rights, anticipating such an opinion.

ABC News' Trish Turner Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.

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