If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Texas will completely ban abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Disclosure: Planned Parenthood and Politico have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.
54% : "For people in the southern states and the Midwest, it would mean a very long-distance to travel to access abortion."
47% :This draft does not change anything about the legal status of abortion in Texas at this moment.
45% : Since the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, the court has consistently struck down bans on abortion before viability, the point at which a fetus could likely survive outside the womb, usually seen as 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
44% : According to a draft opinion obtained by Politico, the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly 50 years of constitutional protection for abortion, and let states set their own restrictions on the procedure.
42% : Last year, the Legislature passed a so-called "trigger law" that would go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, making performing abortion a felony.
42% : The 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld Roe v. Wade and ruled that states could not impose restrictions that created an "undue burden" on pregnant people seeking an abortion.
37% :More than half of all states are expected to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
35% : "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
32% : In 1992, then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative, had indicated that he was going to vote with the majority of the court to overturn Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
30% : "When news like this comes out, it confuses people and scares people, and I think there are people who will read these stories and think that abortion is already illegal," said Hagstrom Miller.

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