The Supreme Court confirmed Tuesday that the leaked draft opinion suggesting that there are enough justices to overturn Roe v. Wade is authentic. A second abortion rights advocacy group, the Guttmacher Institute, counted 26 states it considered certain or likely to ban abortion, based on laws passed before and after Roe in the event it was overturned. Full coverage of abortion rights and the future of Roe v. WadeIn Florida, for example, a 15-week abortion ban is set to take effect in July. States like California, New York, Oregon and Washington have protected abortion rights by codifying them into state law, data from the Center for Reproductive Rights shows. “We can’t trust SCOTUS to protect the right to abortion, so we’ll do it ourselves,” Newsom wrote, using the abbreviation for the Supreme Court of the United States.
