BREAKING: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, Returns Abortion Regulation to States - Election Central

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Democrats and pro-abortion supporters are already up in arms with Congressional leaders already trying to rally some kind of federal legislation to restore abortion in all fifty states: The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed a constitutional right to an abortion in a 6-3 vote, a momentous break from a half century of rulings on one of the nation's most controversial issues.
44% : As for what the landscape will look like across the country, some states will immediately outlaw abortion while some others will follow suit: Twenty-two states have laws that would restrict when and how a patient can terminate a pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health and rights organization.
42% : The end result is a reversal of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, essentially reversing nearly 50 years of legal precedent that had previously established a constitutional right to an abortion.
41% : Alarmed by the prospect that Roe would be overturned, Democrats in Congress responded to the leak by holding a Senate vote to advance legislation that would guarantee access to abortion nationwide.
38% : Pro-life organizations and groups have been working for decades to reverse the Roe decision, a case which many legal scholars have said was on shaky legal ground from the very beginning since abortion or anything similar is not mentioned in the constitution.
24% : In the majority opinion, Alito lays out the case that abortion is not a constitutional right specifically enumerated and as such, regulation of abortion should be correctly returned to the states: "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," the justices wrote.

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