Where abortion is still legal in the U.S. after the fall of Roe v. Wade https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abortion-america-if-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-2022-05-03/ The U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision paves the way for about half of the 50 states to ban or heavily restrict women's access to abortions. read more The first restrictions will take effect in 13 states with so-called trigger laws designed to be enacted once the ruling is struck down. The states are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy research group. Some trigger laws ban abortions almost completely, while others will outlaw abortion after six weeks or 15 weeks. How quickly those trigger laws will go into effect will vary. Some will be rapid. For example, Arkansas' trigger law takes effect as soon as the state attorney general certifies that Roe has been overturned, the Guttmacher Institute says. In Texas, a near-total ban on abortion will go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court decision. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? The Guttmacher Institute estimates a total of 26 U.S. states are certain or likely to ban abortion, leaving women in large swaths of the U.S. Southwest and Midwest without nearby access to the medical procedure. Most states where abortion will still be legal are on the West Coast (California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) or in the Northeast. Governor Gavin Newsom of California, the most populous state, proposed enshrining a right to abortion in the state's constitution. A handful of states in the Midwest and Southwest are expected to keep abortion legal such as Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota and New Mexico, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Under that scenario, a woman in Miami, Florida, might have to fly to another state or drive 11 hours, or more than 700 miles (1,100 kilometers), to reach North Carolina, where abortion is expected to remain legal. Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and Vermont have passed legislation this year seeking to protect or expand abortion access.read more CAN PILL PRESCRIPTIONS OVERCOME STATE BANS? Conservative states have already rushed to restrict abortion pills, which can be prescribed through online telemedicine visits. Now that the court has overturned Roe v. Wade, they will be able to ban them altogether, experts say. Thirty-two states allow only physicians to dispense abortion pills, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Six states, including Texas and Missouri, ban any use of telemedicine for medication abortion. Another 21 states do not have blanket bans but require at least one in-person visit, meaning patients cannot simply have a telemedicine appointment and receive the pills by mail, according to the foundation.
Biden and company are thinking this court decision is the big gift for them at midterms. Nope. The abortion mills are geared up and ready to go. Their van will pick you up and bring you across states lines, free ticket to the casino and the buffet for your "semi-annual reproductive health" getaway. Frequent flier miles awarded. Oregon, for example, clearly plans to become your destination choice for your annual abortion. Biden crowing about how he and the dems will get a federal law passed but it is not clear that the feds have jurisdiction other than playing with some interstate commerce fringe issues.
We do not have any plans': The 13 states with abortion-ban 'trigger laws' are completely unprepared to enforce them https://www.businessinsider.com/trigger-law-states-failed-to-plan-for-end-of-roe-v-wade-2022-5
I see. States caught red-handed waiting to see the specific language and ruling of the Supreme Court before finalizing laws and procedures to implement it.
Joe Manchin is an idiot. For this and other reasons: Joe Manchin Says He ‘Trusted’ Neil Gorsuch And Brett Kavanaugh, Is Now Disappointed https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-says-trusted-neil-160643780.html WASHINGTON ― Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Friday he is alarmed that two Supreme Court justices he supported have helped the court eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. Manchin voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh the following year. After they joined a ruling dismantling the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, Manchin suggested the justices may have lied during their confirmation hearings. “I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans,” Manchin said in a statement. At his confirmation hearing, Gorsuch described Roe as “a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court” and said “a good judge will consider it as precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court worthy as treatment of precedent like any other.” Under questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Gorsuch elaborated on the importance of precedents, saying they ensure the stability of the legal system. “Once a case is settled, that adds to the determinacy of the law,” Gorsuch said. “What was once a hotly contested issue is no longer a hotly contested issue.” In Friday’s Supreme Court decision, however, the court said that “far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.” Supermajorities of American voters for decades have said abortion should be legal in all or some circumstances, according to Gallup polling. As a result of the court’s decision, abortion will soon be illegal in as many as 26 states with limited exceptions. Kavanaugh, for his part, described Roe as “settled law” during his confirmation hearing. “One of the important things to keep in mind about Roe v. Wade is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the past 45 years, as you know, and most prominently, most importantly, reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992,” Kavanaugh said. “I understand the importance of the issue. I understand the importance that people attach to the Roe v. Wade decision, to the Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision.” As several Democrats noted during the confirmation hearings, Donald Trump vowed in 2016 to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe. “If we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that is really what will happen,” Trump said as a candidate during a presidential debate. “That will happen automatically in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court. I will say this. It will go back to the states and the states will then make a determination.” Nevertheless, Manchin said he was “deeply disappointed” in the Roe decision. ”It has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years and was understood to be settled precedent,” Manchin said. “As a Catholic, I was raised pro-life and will always consider myself pro-life. But I have come to accept that my definition of pro-life may not be someone else’s definition of pro-life.” Manchin added that he would support legislation to codify the right to an abortion that had been protected by Roe, but he doesn’t support the procedural changes that would make such a bill viable in the Senate.
The press and others are abusing the word "codify" a bit and need to catch up with the times. There is no longer any judicially determined right to abortion that can be "codified" ie put into legislatively enacted law/statute for the purpose of clarification and adopting prodecures for implementation pursuant to the court's ruling. What Manchin is saying is that he will support legislation to create (versus codify) a statutory right to abortion where allowed by the Constitution as determined by the Supreme Court. It is not clear at all yet that the fed government has jurisdiction over abortion laws- the court really had the states in mind when it referred to legislatures. As discussed, the feds can dick around with the usual interstate commerce angle and travel from state to state but those are just side issues. But Congress passing a federal law that supersedes Alabama's jurisdiction over the issue? Not going to get there easily.
'This is a losing issue': GOP campaign consultants panicked about upcoming midterms after Roe decision https://www.rawstory.com/gop-abortion/
Each party will need to recalibrate some things. But one could argue that it is clear as day now that it is for the state legislatures to decide abortion issues which takes the congressional reps and senators out of the hot seat. People may lean on them for comments but it is hard to make a case that if you elect X,Y, or Z as congressional rep that your right to an abortion will disappear. That's an issue for your state capital. In addition there is always the problem of dems not being that smart. They think this abortion ruling is their little gift from God. But I can guarantee you that economic issues will still be number one this week, next and at election time. Any dem who tries to use the abortion issue as a way of their not adequately addressing economic/ gas issue prices is toast and the voters will smell it a mile away. If they can do both, well, then do that. It's a tall order for most. If I am a conservative running for congress in a swing state, I am just going to start saying that "I am going to Washington to help with your kitchen table issues that are being overlooked by all the left-wing wokesters. In regard to the abortion issue, the Court has spoken and I, along with everyone else, will abide by the will of the people in my state." Heh, thank you Lordy. You da Man.