Dobbs didn't end the anti-abortion movement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Absent an overarching goal, leaders in the movement had expressed concern that anti-abortion activism would fizzle -- and some are concerned that, without sustained effort, that could still happen.
58% :Anti-abortion groups could also target hormonal contraception.
58% : Taking a look at the November 2022 midterms, too, is indicative of some of the challenges anti-abortion activists will face as they try to push the movement forward.
49% : Friday's March for Life, the most prominent national anti-abortion event, is the first since last June's landmark Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, bringing into focus how much further activists want to go now that they've achieved the goal of overturning the national right to abortion.
46% : Decades of anti-abortion activism -- the 50th anniversary of the March for Life is almost exactly 50 years to the day after Roe was decided -- culminated in the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs.
44% : It also, by proxy, negates Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 case which amended Roe v. Wade to allow states to place some restrictions on abortion access, but none that would be overly onerous.
42% : However, now that activists have achieved the end of a constitutionally-protected right to abortion, there's no overarching goal, but rather a series of smaller, disparate ones -- some of which are proving difficult to accomplish.
40% : He promised that the Dobbs decision was "only the first phase of the battle" against abortion, and in a sense he's right; however the movement tries to move forward after its post-Roe victory, any further restrictions won't go through without long, complex, and often unpopular fights.
39% : States legislatures, too are trying to enact restrictive laws like Georgia's six-week ban and Texas's near-total ban on abortion, creating an environment in which, as legal historian Mary Ziegler told NPR's Fresh Air on Tuesday, "what was once a constitutional right not very long ago is now a crime in large swathes of the country."
39% : State-level legislation has always been a priority; that's how some of the most onerous restrictions on abortion have come into effect since Roe was overturned.
39% : In the near future, efforts to further restrict abortion in the US will likely be more piecemeal, focusing on a variety of different measures like prosecuting abortion providers, as Texas's abortion ban allows.
38% : Still, anti-abortion leaders said they were pleased by attendance at this year's march taking it as an indication that there's still energy around the movement.
36% : "We have a tendency to think of banning abortion as an on-off switch," Rachel Rebouché, the dean of Temple University's Beasley School of Law, told Vox back in September.
29% : There could be additional state-level efforts to restrict abortion by legislative action or to explicitly amend state constitutions to deny the right to abortion.
29% : But the Dobbs decision didn't make abortion illegal across the country, it just negates the federal right to abortion under the 14th Amendment, which outlines the right to due process and legal protection under the law.
29% : In the extremely conservative, traditionalist reading of the Constitution that Justice Samuel Alito employed in writing the majority opinion in Dobbs, the right to abortion under the 14th Amendment doesn't exist because it's not explicitly in the text.

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