Reckon South: “On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, ruling the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion. The court’s 6-3 decision in the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturns the federally protected right to an abortion, which stood for nearly 50 years following the Roe decision. The new ruling is not a nationwide abortion ban, but returns the authority to regulate abortion to individual states. The ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in about half of all states, including most of the South.
Federal protections for abortion rights evaporated this week with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe. Nearly every Southern state has an anti-abortion law on the books.
In a post-Roe world, Southerners are asking: What happens next?
The impact of the new ruling will be deep, but it may not be immediate. Read on for Reckon’s explainer on what to expect.”