PolitiFact fact-checked multiple key statements in the Supreme Court's final ruling on Roe v. Wade.
Ending nearly 50 years of federally protected access to abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, returning power to individual states to set their own laws.."We thus return the power to weigh those arguments to the people and their elected representatives.
In addition, defining what constitutes a non-therapeutic, elective abortion is complicated. Many European nations, for example, have broad exceptions that allow abortions after the 20th week to protect the mother’s welfare. That group includes Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Ukraine, Spain and many others."At the time of Roe, 30 states still prohibited abortion at all stages.
That said, Tang also wrote that by 1868, 31 of the 37 states had laws"punishing abortion in some form or another." The historians PolitiFact reached in February said Alito’s numbers are largely correct, though by the time the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, doctors had been pushing for over a decade to criminalize abortion as part of a campaign to professionalize medicine.
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