The fallout from overturning Roe

A lot can change in a day. On the morning of June 24th, women waking up in the conservative states of Kentucky and Arkansas had a formal constitutional right to an abortion—even if the reality of getting one had become increasingly fraught and laborious. A few hours later, a Supreme Court refashioned by Donald Trump’s appointees finalised a sweeping opinion that had been leaked in May. It declared that the constitution contained no fundamental right to abortion, that the landmark Roe v Wade decision from 1973 had been “egregiously wrong from the start”, and that states could start to regulate abortions as they saw fit.