Alito Draft Would Allow for Sweeping State Action on Abortion

States would be free to enact virtually any legislation limiting access and criminalizing abortion if the reasoning in a draft Supreme Court opinion aiming to overturn Roe v. Wade is adopted.

The leaked document authored by Justice Samuel Alito, for instance, could lead to restrictions that include potentially giving a fetus equal rights as a person.

Conveying so-called personhood could criminalize abortion, which would have a dramatic effect on people who want to end a pregnancy and those going through fertility treatments in order to have a baby, said Seema Mohapatra, a health law and bioethics professor at SMU Dedman ...