Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of constitutional right to abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Without Roe v. Wade, an individual's ability to access abortion depends on the state where they live.
42% : Dobbs v. Jackson is the first time since 1973 that the court has ruled on the constitutionality of banning abortion before viability.
41% : "Roe has served as a backstop that prevents states from banning abortion before viability, and so without that backstop, it frees states to do whatever they want to do to control abortion laws."
40% :Thirteen states have trigger laws that ban abortion with limited exceptions, which go into effect automatically or with quick state action now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
39% : "Overruling Roe (removes) the shield that had prevented states from making (abortion) illegal," Barbara McQuade, an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and professor from practice at Michigan Law who specializes in civil rights, told TODAY.
39% :Roe v. Wade being overturned will likely end up banning abortion in about half of U.S. states, Jean Bae, visiting professor at New York University's School of Global Public Health, told TODAY.
38% : Other states, including Alabama, Arizona, Michigan, West Virginia and Wisconsin, have laws banning abortion that were enacted before Roe v. Wade and go into effect again, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that advocates for access to reproductive care.
36% : Washington, D.C., and 16 states have laws that protect the right to abortion, even with Roe v. Wade being overturned, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
34% : "There will be immediately chaos in every state as to whether abortion is legal and under what circumstances," McQuade added.
32% : "Most abortion laws, when they make abortion illegal, they're talking about penalizing providers," and not the people who receive them, Bae clarified.
31% : Dobbs v. Jackson is court case over Mississippi's state law that banned abortion after 15 weeks.
24% : With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion is still legal in much of the U.S., but individual states are now free to make abortion illegal.
22% : Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and South Carolina are all likely to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, and Florida, Indiana, Montana and Nebraska are also likely to ban abortion, according to Guttmacher.

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