Supreme Court Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade; Other Rights at Risk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Abortion is essential.
48% : The ruling is not final and could change before it is issued, likely within the next two months, but if the court does indeed overturn Roe, it has grave implications not only for abortion rights but for other rights rooted in privacy, such as the rights to contraception, private sexual activity, and marriage equality.
48% : "The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision -- Planned Parenthood v. Casey -- that largely maintained the right," Politico reports.
47% : "Abortion is healthcare.
45% : Any state could still legally allow abortion, and Democratic-majority states most likely would.
45% : Abortion is a fundamental human right," said a statement from Tony Hoang, executive director of Equality California.
36% : LGBTQ+ rights activists are joining many other Americans in outrage over the news that the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
35% :About half the states, mostly in the South and Midwest, are poised to outlaw abortion immediately if Roe is overturned, Politico notes.
27% : "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," Alito writes.
22% : Alito's draft opinion, dated February 10, says that "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start" and that the right to regulate abortion should lie with each state.

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