Legitimate question not trolling. I’m a moron when it comes to law, what does overturning this actually do? There’s tons of information about how pregnant women will die on the table because of this and my view is that it’s sensationalized articles to stoke the fires, but I truly don’t know where it leaves us.
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Returns the power to the states. The states will decide via representatives we elect what the abortion laws will be.
This is all about returning powers to the state and the local levels. For everything.
Correct. With no law from Congress all powers are Constitutionally the purview of states.
It returns the power to establish laws to the States (regarding abortion)
Roe was always a ruling on flimsy legal scaffolding Constitutionally - it legislated from the bench, violating the "Separation of Powers" clause. The SCOTUS avoided controversy by simply refusing to hear any cases on the issue, until now. Everyone who understood that only Congress can make law understood that these rulings violated Separation of Powers. The overturn was baked into the very first day of Roe. It is surprising really that it took this long.
Each state now gets to choose its own rules on abortion.
Blue states will see no change.
Red states will ban abortion.
Several in-between states will swing back and forth on it.
Anyone who wants an abortion can probably travel to a blue state.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Women die from “legal” abortion. Millions of people die from “ legal” abortion. What is your point?