Here's the Surprising Backstory of the Downfall of Roe v Wade

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Along the way, the viability standard had come to be seen as beneficial for pro-life legislatures' attempts to restrict abortion to earlier in pregnancy.
50% : In Roe, the high court established that abortion was legal until the unborn child "has the capability of meaningful life outside the mother's womb," wrote Justice Blackmun in the majority opinion.
49% : "That was the strong consensus, but it was very clear that Planned Parenthood wasn't challenging 20-week laws, because that was too close to the viability line."
46% : "I think it was really meaningful for me because I had a 6-month-old that I actually took to Mississippi to that meeting," Hawley said of her efforts to end the constitutional right to abortion.
46% : "I think it was a good strategy of bringing the Mississippi law limiting abortion to 15 weeks, to make them realize how radical [our abortion] law is-15 weeks puts us in line with [abortion restrictions] in Europe, and no one thinks Europe is like the religious right."
44% : Pro-life politicians in Mississippi had already been working on legal challenges to abortion.
43% : The overturning of Roe v. Wade can be traced back to the day the court ruled in 1973 that there was a constitutional right to abortion.
43% : Arkansas and Utah expressed interest in passing laws to challenge the viability standard, and both states eventually passed laws restricting abortion before 18 weeks in 2019.
42% : Through the decades, pro-life forces embraced various strategies to challenge that ruling with limited success.
42% : A state legislature would have to essentially pass a law restricting abortion before viability, wait for that law to be challenged under the viability standard established in Roe and Casey and then hope it would be appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court.
42% : We just have to decide thumbs up/thumbs down on Roe and on the constitutional rights on abortion.'"Waggoner, who's set to present oral arguments before the court for the third time this fall, was also taken aback.
27% : In 1992, another Supreme Court decision on abortion, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, allowed states to place some restrictions on abortion while still embracing the concept that women have a right to get an abortion before viability.

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