An overturning of Roe v. Wade will not come close to ending legal abortion in the United States, but rather, a flurry of legal wrangling at the state level is all but certain to follow the ruling’s expected rollback, said longtime observers of the battles over abortion in the United States. This will lead the way to numerous contrasting and opposing laws and regulations in different states, they said.
The leak of a draft opinion on the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization by Politico on Monday night caught many people off guard, caused censure from both sides of the political spectrum, and kicked off a flurry of statements by federal and state politicians looking to get ahead of an expected overturning of the seminal 1973 precedent that wrested the regulation of abortion from the states and made the procedure lawful throughout the entire United States.
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