Since 1973, courts have been at the center of debates over abortion rights. Rachel Rebouché is a professor of law and the interim dean of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where her scholarship focuses on reproductive health, family law and public health.

‘People who seek abortions will seek to circumvent these laws.’ But hearing a range of thinkers’ best guesses at where we could go can give us insight into the visions of the country that anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights groups will be fighting for now that 50 years of Roe v. The long-term outcome of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling is anything but clear right now. Still others thought the decision wouldn’t make much of a difference - because aren’t the states and the parties pretty much sorted already? Others thought the exact opposite would happen: Abortion would become a front-burner political issue at all levels, pushing our already-extreme polarization to boil over. Some thought the reversal of Roe would soothe political polarization by taking abortion out of national politics. But we asked a group of historians, legal scholars and women’s health experts what they think will happen to the abortion landscape in the United States, and how that will affect law, politics, healthcare and society. We can’t know exactly how all of this will change. But this sudden cleaving in the United States will go far beyond abortion access, affecting healthcare, the criminal legal system and politics, at all levels, in the coming years. Wade will create two Americas when it comes to abortion access - the mostly red states where abortion is illegal in most circumstances, and the mostly blue states where it is mostly available with restrictions. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. A range of thinkers on the future of abortion post-Roe in America - and how that will affect everything else.

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