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Democrats are facing increasing pressure to do something about protecting abortion rights before their predicted loss of control in one, or both chambers of Congress in November’s midterm elections.
But options are limited, and Joe Biden’s administration sees no easy path forward as the supreme court prepares to finalize its reversal, in the coming weeks, of the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that guaranteed women’s constitutional rights to the procedure.
I can’t speak for what actions could be possible.
What I can tell you will happen, and this is what we are preparing for, if Roe were to fall, abortion would probably be illegal and about half the states in the country, up to 26 states, particularly in the south and midwest and west.