This may be a classic chicken and egg conundrum, but one that accurately reflects the changing mood and ideology of the nation. Yet blaming it on the Trump presidency is simplistic because he would not have been elected had the ideological climate not been pointing in that direction. The steps that have brought us here have been many, chief among them the Trump presidency and the escalating aggressive conservatism that seeks to overturn gains made by the decades of slow-though real-legislation liberalizing the areas of sex education, sexual identity, LGBTQ+ rights, and of course, abortion. Wade is overturned. Yet I would argue that the ground for an overturn of Roe v Wade had been thoroughly prepared and seeded for a long time now. For example, Wyoming enacted a “trigger” ban in March 2022 that moved the state from the category of likely to ban abortion to certain to ban abortion if Roe v. Some states are poised to strike as soon as the Supreme Court makes a decision against Roe v Wade. It has been estimated that without Roe v Wade, 26 states will ban abortion altogether.
Even more ominous is that after Texas made it a law other conservatives states like Alabama, Idaho, Ohio, Oklahoma and Missouri, followed suit with “copycat laws”.
