What to know about new abortion restrictions, and what that could mean for Roe v. Wade:
A series of new abortion laws in a growing number of states has left Americans confused about where the law stands and how abortion access has changed in the past few months, if at all.
"Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, these are absolutely the most extreme laws that have been passed," Shaw said. "For the last couple of decades, I would say, the strategy has primarily been to restrict access to abortion, but not to attempt to prohibit abortion outright," Shaw said. "Low-income women and low-income women of color have, in many states, found it almost impossible for quite some time to access abortion," Shaw said.
That said, if the court did decide to take up such a case, Shaw said that it is fairly safe to predict that Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh could vote against Roe, siding in favor of removing the federal right to an abortion. While the case name has become almost synonymous with abortion, there have been several other key cases that legal experts point to when discussing how the Supreme Court could rule, should the issue come before them again.
The only way that any of these laws could go into effect at the state level, Shaw said, is if the federal law -- Roe v. Wade -- is overturned, which could only be done by the Supreme Court if they decide to revisit an abortion-related case.
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