Editorial: Think all those state bans on abortion are the final word? Maybe not

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Meanwhile, there are efforts in other states such as Michigan to get measures on state ballots that will enshrine a right to abortion.
42% : All these legal efforts are worth pursuing though they are no substitute for a national right to abortion and contraception -- as the legal advocates have all stressed.
40% : For example, some bans may be susceptible to being overturned because they conflict with state constitutions that have been interpreted by courts to guarantee a right to abortion.
40% : The California Legislature has placed a constitutional amendment to protect abortion on the November ballot.
39% : To be safe, Planned Parenthood stopped providing abortions for the time being.
39% :Of course, even if the abortion rights advocates win in court, an antiabortion state legislature could amend its constitution to explicitly ban abortion.
38% : The fighting in court over abortion is far from over.
38% : Now that Roe is overturned and states in half the country have banned abortion or are about to ban it, advocates are back -- this time in state courts, attempting to block abortion bans.
36% : Kentucky already qualified a November ballot to amend its constitution to say it confers no right to abortion.
32% : As Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood, noted grimly, clinics in half the country where abortion is legal cannot handle the needs of an entire country.
22% : State bans on abortion may be more legally vulnerable than they seem with Roe overturned and the Supreme Court handing states the power to prohibit abortion.

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