[Popman]

Nah. Overturning Roe V. Wade can be done by the Supreme Court.

I agree they can, I'm talking about what happens after they do, if they do.

The states will have a big mess on their hands. After all, it will become a states issue.

Do you really think liberals in some deep blue cities will not riot when this happens?

[sinkspur]

Do you really think liberals in some deep blue cities will not riot when this happens?

So what if they do? They can seek to convince voters that abortion should be allowed. About half the states will, I believe, decide that abortion will be legal.

That's much better than the situation we have now.

[valkyrieanne]

Do you really think liberals in some deep blue cities will not riot when this happens?

Why should they riot? If Roe were reversed, and abortion really did return to the state legislatures, it's pretty obvious that there would be some states that would be "abortion meccas" - obviously NY, MA, IL, CA, WA, OR and probably the rest of the Northeast coast. Just like now, abortion clinics would be concentrated in the major cities.

There would be some states like MO where abortion would largely be illegal. Women in those states would drive or fly to an abortion "mecca" city.

Anything else is going to require a Human Life Amendment to the US Constitution, and given that over 1/4 of the states will probably have legalized abortion, it's difficult to imagine such an amendment passing.