Roe overturned: What you need to know about the Supreme Court abortion decision

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Nevertheless, even though abortion is seen by many as essential health care, the cultural fight will surely continue.
56% : President Joe Biden could use executive power to instruct federal agencies to review existing regulations to ensure that access to abortion continues to occur in as many places as possible.
53% : They revised its framework to allow more state regulation throughout pregnancy and weakened the test for evaluating those laws.
49% : Meanwhile, 16 states and the District of Columbia protect access to abortion in a variety of ways, such as state statutes, constitutional amendments or state Supreme Court decisions.
47% : Even before Dobbs, the ability to access abortion was limited by a patchwork of laws across the United States.
47% : The state-by-state access to abortion resulting from this decision means many people will have to travel farther to obtain an abortion.
45% : In doing so, The justices overturned two key decisions protecting access to abortion: 1973's Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decided in 1992.
45% : Supporters of the right to abortion argue that the Casey and Roe rulings should have been left in place as, in the words of the Casey ruling, reproductive rights allow women to "participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation."
43% : According to the opinion, abortion is "fundamentally different" because it destroys fetal life.
43% : The court's ruling has done what reproductive rights advocates feared for decades: It has taken away the constitutional right to privacy that protected access to abortion.
42% : But the majority said in its ruling that the decision would have no impact on the right of same-sex couples to marry.
42% : But Casey's "undue burden" test gave states wider latitude to regulate abortion.
42% :Thirteen states have so-called "trigger laws," which greatly restrict access to abortion.
42% : Congress could also reconsider providing limited Medicaid payment for abortion, but such federal legislation also seems unlikely to succeed.
39% : In recent years, states have adopted numerous restrictions on abortion that would not have survived Roe's tougher "strict scrutiny" test.
39% : Nine states have pre-Roe laws never taken off the books that significantly restrict or ban access to abortion.
39% : Many states that restrict access to abortion also are trying to prevent medication abortion.
38% : Under Casey's undue burden test, states were prevented from enacting restrictions that placed substantial obstacles in the path of those seeking abortion.
37% : The House of Representatives passed the Women's Health Protection Act, which protects health care providers and pregnant people seeking abortion, but Senate Republicans have blocked the bill from coming up for a vote.
35% : Research shows that people have abortions whether lawful or not, but in nations where access to abortion is limited or outlawed, women are more likely to suffer negative health outcomes, such as infection, excessive bleeding and uterine perforation.
33% : The Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 majority to uphold Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
28% : The court's opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said that the Constitution does not mention abortion.
24% :The ruling does not mean that abortion is banned throughout the U.S. Rather, arguments about the legality of abortion will now play out in state legislatures, where, Alito noted, women "are not without electoral or political power."
23% : Altogether, nearly half of states will restrict access to abortion through a variety of measures like banning abortion from six weeks of pregnancy - before many women know they are pregnant - and limiting the reasons abortions may be obtained, such as forbidding abortion in the case of fetal anomalies.

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