Roe v. Wade Overturned, Ending 50 Years of Abortion Protections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : B. Jessie Hill, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, said she expects anti-abortion groups to challenge these protective laws "by saying that fetuses are persons under the Constitution with a right to life and therefore that the state has to protect them."
51% : "The Court has correctly decided that a right to abortion is not in the constitution, thereby allowing the people, through their elected representatives, to have a voice in this very important decision."
44% : Twenty-six states are "certain or likely" to ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights.
43% : And more than 2500 medical professionals signed a petition in June urging the court to uphold the right to abortion.
43% : At least 16 states have proactively protected a right to an abortion, according to Guttmacher, while The New York Times reports that 20 states and Washington, DC, have laws that protect abortion: Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
43% : Travel Distance for People Seeking Abortion," "State Abortion Policy Landscape:
41% : The US Supreme Court has voted to overturn the federal constitutional right to abortion, which will now leave the issue to be decided on a state-by-state basis.
41% : Four states also have a history or have shown a recent inclination to prohibit abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
41% : Perritt said that residency programs in states that are immediately banning or will soon prohibit abortion are scrambling to figure out how they will train ob/gyn residents not just in how to provide and manage induced abortions, but also in how to manage spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss for other reasons, noting that those issues cannot be separated.
40% :Thirteen states have so-called trigger laws that will ban abortion almost immediately, while another nine states are likely to now try and enforce near-total bans or severe restrictions that have been blocked by courts pending the outcome of the just-issued decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
39% : It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
39% :Hill also said a travel ban would be problematic, noting that it might be difficult to prosecute someone for "something you did completely in another state."
39% :Guttmacher Institute: "26 States Are Certain or Likely to Ban Abortion Without Roe: Here's Which Ones and Why," "If Roe v. Wade Falls:
38% : According to some estimates, about 25 million women of reproductive age will now live in states that ban or severely restrict abortion.
38% : In preparing for these attacks on patients and physicians, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on June 13 signed a bill that immediately protects anyone who has an abortion and medical professionals in the state who provide them from legal retaliation by states that restrict or prohibit abortion.
37% :Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said in a statement that "this ruling does not ban the practice of abortion but instead empowers the people, through their accountable elected representatives to make commonsense policy decisions.
36% : A Texas ban on abortion after 6 weeks -- which also allows private citizens to sue abortion providers -- was allowed to stay in place while it was being challenged.
35% : In the case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health of Mississippi, the state's sole abortion provider sued to block the state's 2018 law that banned abortion after 15 weeks.
35% : Four states have a constitutional amendment declaring that the state constitution does not secure or protect the right to abortion or allow use of public funds for abortion: Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
35% : Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) in early June called a special legislative session to repeal the state's 173-year-old dormant ban on abortion.
34% : As of Friday afternoon, hours after the ruling came down, at least four states have now banned abortion.
34% : Even while Roe was still the law, Mississippi had banned most abortions after 20 weeks, and 16 states prohibited abortion after 22 weeks.
25% : The Justices voted 6-3 that the two cases that established a right to abortion -- Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992) -- were never correct, and that there has never been a guarantee of abortion under the Constitution.
22% : On May 26, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a ban on abortion from the moment of conception.

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