With the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Mississippi, Roe v. Wade has been overturned and decisions about abortion rights have been returned to the states. In some states, the reversal of Roe triggered immediate, near-total bans on abortion. Other states are expected to put in place restrictions that forbid abortions at early stages of pregnancy.
For nearly 50 years, proponents of criminalization have focused on later abortions, in part because Roe explicitly allows more regulations further into pregnancy. This focus has perhaps given people a false sense of when abortions happen: Forty-two percent of Americans incorrectly believe that Roe allowed abortion “up to the moment of birth.” It didn’t. Under Roe, forty-four states had gestational limits — including deep-blue states such as Massachusetts and California.
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