Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, placing states in charge of deciding abortion rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% :The opinion also overturns Planned Parenthood v. Casey, another landmark decision that established the "viability" metric for determining when states could limit or prohibit abortions based on pregnancy gestation.
48% : Attorneys for the state argued that the two precedents -- both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established the "viability" metric for abortion legality -- should be overruled, describing them as "unprincipled decisions that have damaged the democratic process."
42% : Many parts of the country will retain or expand abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, though 26 states are poised or at risk to ban abortion altogether.
39% : As Mississippi is one of the states with a trigger law on abortion, the state is able to immediately ban the procedure entirely, with no time frame required.
34% : The Biden administration has been deliberating possible executive actions that could be taken in order to enable residents from states with bans to access abortion in other parts of the country, The New York Times reported.
33% : Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is based on a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortion after 15 weeks gestation.
14% : Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh each wrote concurring, separate opinions, noting largely that abortion does not appear in the Constitution and does not protect the right to abortion.

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