What Happens if Roe v. Wade Is Overturned?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Also among the long list of restrictions Texas residents now face under the law, per Guttmacher: the patient must undergo an ultrasound and have the image explained to them, private insurance only covers abortion "in cases of life endangerment or if the woman's health is severely compromised," and abortions can only be performed after six weeks -- before most people even know they're pregnant -- "only in cases of life endangerment or severely compromised health."
48% : According to the New York Times, the average person seeking an abortion is already a mother, in their late 20s with some college education, and has a low income.
47% : (But it's important to note that, for now, abortion remains legal in every state.)
47% : The landmark 7-2 Supreme Court ruling, which found that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects the right to abortion, came in 1973.
46% : As of this year, people seeking care must undergo state-directed counseling that discourages abortion ahead of a waiting period, which means two trips to the provider (and two rounds of traveling, taking time off work, and securing child care).
43% : But before long, state lawmakers started chipping away at the constitutional right to abortion however they could.
42% : Just 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws protecting the right to abortion.
41% : Nine states have pre-Roe bans that could be legally enforced if the ruling is struck down, and four states -- Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia -- have passed their own constitutional amendments that prohibit any legal protections for abortion.
40% : It was a major victory for civil rights: Before Roe, access to legal abortions was severely curtailed; according to the Guttmacher Institute, in the early 1960s, 44 states only allowed abortion if the mother's life was at risk.
39% : It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
35% : In the midst of the Met Gala last night, Politico broke the shocking news that, according to a leaked draft opinion, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that guarantees the right to abortion under the U.S. Constitution.
33% : Thirteen states have so-called "trigger laws" in place that would almost immediately ban abortion if Roe is overturned.
26% : Alito also wrote that the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which affirmed the basic ruling in Roe, should also be struck down.

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