Legally Speaking: Abortion no longer a constitutional right, up to states

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Each state now has the right to pass its own laws regarding abortion.
42% : Legally speaking, the Supreme Court did not ban abortion.
42% : The holding concludes with returning the power to the states to decide whether to legalize abortion.
41% : Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives."
41% : "Our decision returns the issue of abortion to those legislative bodies and it allows women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process by influencing public opinion, lobbying legislators, voting and running for office."
41% : In other words, there is no support in the Constitution for abortion and the Court ignored the democratic process and substituted its will for those of Americans.
41% : There is no longer a constitutional right to abortion.
40% : "By the time of the adoption of the 14th Amendment, three-quarters of the States had made abortion a crime at any state of pregnancy and the remaining States would soon follow.""Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
39% : The day the Mississippi law was enacted, the Jackson Women's Health Organization -- an abortion clinic -- and one of its doctors filed suit in federal district court arguing the act violated the constitutional right to abortion.
38% : The Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson holding "the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.
35% : The Court begins and ends the majority opinion by pointing out, "Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views."

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