What will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
States will decide By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — As Judge Samuel Alito Jr. moved toward Senate confirmation to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, the voices of those working to keep abortion legal in the United States were getting more worried. “Roe hangs by a thread on the Supreme Court,” said NARAL Pro-Choice America in its 2006 report on “The Status of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the United States,” referring to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision lifting most state restrictions on abortion. “And while existing restrictions are numerous and significant, if the court were to overturn Roe, the outlook for women in much of the United States is bleak,” the report added. Alito “poses a direct threat to women’s health and safety,” said Karen Pearl, interim president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement Jan. 24, the day the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Alito’s nomination. “His lon
