After Roe, many questions: Where the legal fight moves next
As the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade continues to reverberate throughout America, a significant number of questions, both legal and logistical, have been thrust upon a nation now divided by the legal status of abortion care.
Half of states are moving rapidly to ban or severely restrict abortion. There are legal questions about the methods they will use to enforce these new laws, and the scope of criminal or civil liabilities for doctors, women, and facilitators. Interstate travel and the status of medications sent via U.S. mail or private courier are also part of the legal uncertainties that have emerged after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right in place for almost half a century.
“There’s going to be a lot of legal questions surrounding these issues for quite a while,” says Jessie Hill, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. “Right now, I think the big impression is that it’s
