03 May 2022

AMERICA WITHOUT ROE

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What an America Without Roe Would Look Like

Legal abortions would fall, particularly among poor women in the South and Midwest, and out-of-state travel and abortion pills would play a bigger role

Claire Cain Miller and

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(We are republishing this in light of a leaked draft opinion in which the Supreme Court privately voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, obtained by Politico and published Monday night.)

"Last week’s Supreme Court arguments on a Mississippi abortion law raised the prospect of a return to a time half a century ago — when the procedure was illegal across most of the United States and women, perilously, tried to end pregnancies on their own or sought back-alley abortions.

If the court decides to reverse or weaken the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, it will usher in a somewhat different era. Abortion would remain legal in more than half of states, but not in a wide swath of the Midwest and the South.

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