Truth is, and many people don't know this, but Roe v. Wade was truly a very radical ruling in that it forced all states to allow every abortion right up until birth, even when the fetus is barely different from infants and incredibly unsavory methods have to be used to kill it. Even today 70% of Americans as per Gallup disagree with third-trimester abortions, and Roe v. Wade forces these to occur.
"Many people don't know this" because it's straight up wrong lmfao
For the stage subsequent to viability [the third trimester], the State in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.
Roe explicitly did not "force all states to allow every abortion right up until birth." States are allowed to forbid abortion entirely during the third trimester (claiming Roe "forces these to occur" is wrong), and states are allowed to "regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health" during the second trimester. The idea that Roe "forced all states to allow every abortion" is just utterly divorced from reality.
Thank you, I stand corrected. I must have been misinformed.
Facts still remain that 70% of Americans say abortion should not be allowed in the second trimester, which every state except Texas and Mississippi currently does only due to Roe v. Wade. And "reasonably related to maternal health" is not strict enough IMHO, and most Americans would agree.
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