If Roe is shot, where does the anti-abortion movement go next?

“We are prepared to not only create a legal landscape to protect life at the federal and state levels, but also to support a culture of life,” said Kristen Waggoner, general counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which supports the Mississippi ban at 15 weeks. which led to the Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe.

Left-wing advocates see the leaked project presenting a playbook for a radical attempt to roll back other established rights. “There are people on the right who say they’re just looking to the states, when in fact it’s very clear that their agenda is much broader than that,” NARAL’s Ms Ford said. “It’s not just about abortion.”

Criticism that such a move could create a cultural revolution, potentially overturning previous protections for other issues, including contraception and same-sex and interracial marriage, is “hysterical and alarmist,” Ms Wagoner said.

Abortion enjoys sustained support and energy, as seen in the annual March for Life, abortion opponents have said.

Ms. Carroll, spokesperson for the Susan B. Anthony List, noted that there had been no sustained mass protests against other landmark Supreme Court rulings, on issues such as interracial marriage and contraception.

The movement has long been loosely divided into incrementalists, mainstream groups such as the Susan B. Anthony List and the National Right to Life Committee, which for years focused on achieving restriction by restriction, and absolutists , who saw nothing less than total elimination. of abortion as failure. This moment is a convergence of the two, with the court considering overturning Roe, and states like Texas and Oklahoma effectively banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even realize they are pregnant.

Now, there are emerging disagreements over the moral and practical benefits of strategies such as prosecuting pregnant women and making it illegal to cross state lines for an abortion.