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The chancellor and dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, reacted to the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade on Friday by claiming that the ruling effectively “turns back the clock” to “when women did not have the right to vote” and were “treated as property,” adding, “I tremble for my granddaughters.”

“Today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is devastating on many levels,” Dean David Faigman proclaimed in an open letter, before claiming that women not being able to as easily kill their unborn children means the clock has been turned back to another century.

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“This decision turns back the clock not just to 1973, but to a century when women did not have the right to vote and were, largely, treated as property,” Faigman wrote. “I tremble for my granddaughters.”

The dean then argued that “those with religious objections to abortion do not have the right to impose them on others,” before calling into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

“As a dean and professor of constitutional law, this opinion — and, indeed, the composition of the Court itself, which is a product of political gerrymandering — raises basic questions regarding the legitimacy of the Court itself,” Faigman said.

On Friday, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade , holding in the Dobbs case that the Constitution does not include a right to abortion and returning the issue of abortion laws and regulations to state legislatures.

“On the eve of Pride weekend, Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs underscores the breadth of the potential challenges to other fundamental and hard-won rights, including marriage equality,” Faigman lamented in his letter.

Faigman concluded by pledging to use his role as the leader of one of California’s most prestigious law schools to help prepare future lawyers and policymakers to “grapple with the outcome of today’s decision.”

“UC Hastings is committed more than ever to its core mission to prepare diverse students to advance the rule of law and pursue justice,” he wrote. “Our students are the future lawyers and policymakers who will need to grapple with the outcome of today’s decision.”

Faigman is just one of the many members of academia having a public meltdown over the Supreme Court’s life-saving decision.

After the ruling, college and university professors took to social media, where they issued unhinged diatribes in response to the reality that not as many killings will transpire in a post-Roe America.

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UPDATED | Wildfires continued to burn in Northern California Friday, killing at least 31 people and destroying over 128,000 acres of land. The wildfires have burned across California’s famed wine country since Sunday and spread to residential homes, forcing over 20,000 Californians to evacuate the area.

There are reportedly 9 active fires in the region as of Friday with more than 128,000 acres of land burned—about eight times the size of Manhattan.

Officials don’t know what sparked the blaze, but flames have spread due to 50 to 60 mile-per-hour winds and extremely dry conditions across the northern region. The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved grants for additional staff and firefighting equipment Tuesday after President Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration for the wildfires.

“The loss of homes and burning of precious land is heartbreaking, but the loss of life is truly devastating,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

Napa and Sonoma counties have been devastated by the Tubbs fire, which has burned at least 34,000 acres. In eastern Napa, the Atlas Peak fire has burned across 43,000 acres with only 7 percent successfully contained. The Redwood Complex fire in Redwood Valley spread across 34,000 acres with 10 percent containment reported. More evacuations have been ordered across Northern California as the wildfires spread.

Napa Valley roads are shut down as officials work to contain the wildfires, which the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said the fires “spread very quickly” since beginning Sunday night. There are reportedly 285 people are missing, as of Thursday morning.

California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Monday in Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Nevada, Orange, Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties. In a statement, Brown said the wildfires “have damaged critical infrastructure, threatened thousands of homes and caused the evacuation of residents.”

At least 1,500 structures have been destroyed by the wildfires. The LA Times reported the worst California fire in recent history occurred in 2003 and destroyed 2,800 homes. That fire also took place in October, when weather conditions are primed for high winds and dry land that acts as “a fuse for sparks.”

California faces about 5,400 wildfires each year, with tens of thousands of acres destroyed by the flames, but the simultaneous wildfires have proved challenging to battle. Smoke from the fires spread to San Francisco about 60 miles south of the wildfires, prompting a smoke advisory in the region. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the extensive smoke from the fires.

Napa’s wine region is expecting to be devastated by the fires, as Newsweek reported . As of Thursday, the California fires had not significantly registered on the U.S. Drought Monitor.