In the United States, thirteen states — Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma,[1] South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,[2] Utah, and Wyoming[3] have trigger laws that would automatically ban abortion in the first and second trimesters if the landmark case Roe v. Wade were overturned.[4][5][6] Illinois formerly had a trigger law (enacted in 1975), but repealed it in 2017.[7][8][9] Also, nine states — Alabama, Arizona, Michigan, West Virginia, and Wisconsin as well as the already mentioned Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, still have their unenforced pre-Roe v. Wade abortion bans on the law books. Those laws are not currently enforceable due to Roe v. Wade, but could be enforced if Roe v. Wade was overturned.[5]
The one thing I do have to ask is if these 18 states do end up banning abortion, are we going to see women traveling interstate in order to get abortions? What exactly is going to happen? For the ones here who have a problem with black people, if Roe v Wade never happened, do you think the country would have been able to handle having double the amount of black people it’s had since RvW, or no? It’s all rather interesting to me.
A total ban on abortion would have certainly accelerated the issues plaguing the country over the past 60 years. Thus, if I'm in an accelerationist mood, I'm for banning it. In reality, I'm not for bans on abortion (though there is no good reason to allow for them past the first trimester other than safety of the woman), but I'm also for the total and utter elimination of the welfare state, which would put a natural counterweight on the problem. Ideally, culture and communities would limit out-of-wedlock childbirth via shame and even explusion, due to the undue burdens it puts on extended families and communities. This is also why I'm opposed to Barrett's argument for a guarantee of adoptive services.
It's difficult to say what effect the legality of abortion has on the amount of people who become pregnant in the first place. A lot of "abortion as birth control" demons out there.