Rebecca Greenfield

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court didn’t so much settle America’s long-running fight over abortion as push the fights to states — and election contests. The court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization repealed constitutional protections for abortions that had been in place since 1973. That has given conservative governors and legislatures the power they had long sought to limit the medical procedure in their states. Americans’ thoughts on reproductive