Threat to abortion is just the beginning of the assault on rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : For now, abortion remains legal.
45% : For now, people remember what it was like to live in a country where abortion was, if difficult to access, still legal on a federal level.
44% : Only 17 states (including Washington DC) have policies that protect the right to abortion, and only five protect abortion throughout the whole pregnancy.
43% : The logic being used against Roe vs Wade could be used to strike down same-sex marriage or access to contraception.
40% : Guttmacher also identifies four states, based on their political composition and recent actions, that its researchers believe are likely to ban or restrict abortion as soon as possible, such as Indiana, which in the past decade has passed 55 abortion restrictions and bans.
39% : Once this decision is handed down half of the country will find that it does not have legal access to abortion, and that should be understood as the beginning, not the end, of the fight against reproductive rights in the United States.
38% : Seven states, including Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Ohio, have expressed the intent to limit abortion as much as the Supreme Court ruling will permit.
37% : Alito's decision, if it is indeed published, will formally end the right to abortion in America.
37% : There have already been reports that Republican politicians and lobbyists are working towards a law that would ban abortion at the federal level.
36% : It is worth noting that Alito's draft did not only attack Roe, but also Planned Parenthood vs Casey, a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed Roe and struck down a law that said married women must notify their husbands before obtaining an abortion.
34% : The logic put forward in Alito's draft decision -- that abortion is not mentioned in the constitution, and so Roe vs Wade must be overturned -- could also easily be used against Griswold vs Connecticut, the 1965 decision that said that married couples had the right to buy and use contraception, or to overturn Obergefell vs Hodges, the 2015 decision that gave same-sex couples the right to marry.

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