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California can't pass a parental notification (not permission, just notification) law. The 2006 North Dakota abortion ban was soundly rejected by the fairly conservative people of that fairly conservative state, 55-45.

People tend to be a lot more open to getting new rights than they are giving up rights they have been given. Just human nature. 30+ years of legal abortion in the USA now means there is a generation of women who have only known legal nationwide abortion. Enough of them just aren't going to roll over and play dead when Roe is overturned - they will fight their battle in every state and win much more often than they lose.

Another thing, 40,000,000+ abortions in the last 30+ years weren't all done to liberal women. There are many self-identified conservatives in there. Many churchgoers. I know a pro-life woman who aborted her child, with her pro-life mom's help and support, because it looked like the developing fetus would have problems and they didn't want an abnormal child on their hands.

Were they wrong to do it? I think so. Do they think they are phonies for behaving this way? No, not at all. They are self identified as pro life, but it wouldn't stop them from doing it again, hate to break the news to you. And they aren't alone.

Also don't forget that stats show about 50% of married men and 33% of married women have had a romantic affair. Now and then, this situation will result in an unwanted, undesired, and sometimes 'unexplainble' pregnancy. And yes, there are some Republicans in those ranks, and some churchgoers. $hit happens, and people sometimes do he wrong thing. Sometimes even good people do the wrong thing. So the young wife who finds herself with an 'unexplainable' pregnancy has a choice: destroy her status quo and the life she values with her husband, or quietly make the problem go away via an abortion.

I believe the reason for my cynicism is that I know that otherwise good people sometimes do the wrong thing, and that good people often leave themselves wiggle room to do the wrong thing in the case of getting dealt a bad hand. Is this wrong? Yes. Is it any less real? No, not at all.

I just can't see a 30-year 'right' granted for admittedly the wrong reasons just suddenly vanishing.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am cynical about this issue, and this goes regardless of what people tell pollsters. about a million abortions a year can't possibly be to just the politically pro abortion women.