With Supreme Court poised to overrule Roe v. Wade, what would happen to abortion laws in Pa., N.J., Del.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The justice says the same about the precedent setting Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which establishes the "viability" metric for determining when abortions could be performed.
53% : Mississippi lawmakers who support the law and anti-abortion advocates hope the Supreme Court's ruling in the case strikes down Roe v. Wade.
50% : Anti-abortion activists and abortion rights supporters gathered outside Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, after a draft Supreme Court opinion published by Politico indicated the court is considering a decision that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
50% : Also, so long as he is governor, Wolf said he would veto any anti-abortion legislation that lands on his desk; his term ends in 2023.
48% : "I believe that a woman's right to choose is fundamental, Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned."Leaders in Pennsylvania and New Jersey responded to the news by reminding residents that abortion remains legal in all 50 states and those seeking abortions are still legally able to do so.
48% : In the event that Roe is overturned, Pennsylvania would be in a particularly interesting place as both a "receiver of abortion seekers and in the position of an anti-abortion legislature" which, because of Wolf's stance on abortion, have not been able to pass an abortion ban in the state, Temple's Ghorashi said.
45% : If Roe v. Wade is overruled, Pennsylvania and New Jersey should anticipate an "influx of abortion seekers as other states around them ban abortion," said Adrienne Ghorashi, program manager at the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University's law school.
45% : In the draft opinion, Alito lists prior state laws about abortion during the 150 years from the signing of the Constitution until the 1973 landmark ruling.
43% : Just 16 states in the United States have passed laws expanding access to abortion or codifying Roe v. Wade in order to keep in order to protect abortion rights.
42% :Turning abortion rights over to the states, though, could make laws on the issue dependent on the political ideologies of each state legislature, since there is no federal legislative protection for abortion in the United States, Ghorashi said.
41% : Already, 13 states have trigger laws in place that would immediately ban abortion in the first and second trimesters upon a Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark case.
39% :The leaked draft preliminarily indicates where the Supreme Court justices lineup in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a challenge of a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortion after 15 weeks gestation.
39% : In 2017, Delaware updated its legal code to permit "the termination of abortion prior to viability, to protect the life or health of the mother, or in the event of a serious fetal abnormality."
37% : Republicans have the majority in the Pennsylvania legislature, and there have been hints they could propose legislation banning abortion in the state.
36% : A 1860 law criminalizing abortion in Pennsylvania is included in the chronological index, stating that providing a woman with "poison" in order to induce a miscarriage was a felony in the state.
35% : "I think they're going to want to ban abortion for their citizens as much as they can, which would mean stopping them from traveling."
33% : "We (the administration) said that Roe is based on 'a long line of precedent recognizing the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty ... against government interference with intensely personal decisions,'" Biden wrote.

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