post-Roe

Within 9 months of the Roe decision, 188 bills to restrict abortion were introduced in 41 states. As described in Chapter 5, post-Roe statutes included requirements of spousal or parental consent, hospitalization for second trimester abortions, mandatory waiting periods, and funding restrictions.

1988, Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse, edited by Susan Elizabeth Davis, Women Under Attack: Victories, Backlash, and the Fight for Reproductive Freedom, Boston, Mass.: South End Press, →ISBN, page 55

On July 3, 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld three key provisions of the Missouri statute and, though it didn’t overturn Roe, set back the “pro-choice” movement more than any decision in the post-Roe period.

1994, William A[nthony] Donohue, Twilight of Liberty: Legacy of the ACLU, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2017, →ISBN

Conversely, a substantively minimalist jurisprudence, allowing the outright prohibition of abortions, is equally unworkable; in the years before Roe, when nontherapeutic abortions were prohibited in nearly every state, abortions were almost as common as they are in the post-Roe period (albeit less safe).

2005, Christopher J. Peters, Neal Devins, “Alexander Bickel and the New Judicial Minimalism”, in Kenneth D. Ward, Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo, editors, The Judiciary and American Democracy: Alexander Bickel, the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, and Contemporary Constitutional Theory, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 62–63

It is probably safe to assume that the effort will begin again once the reality of a post-Roe America sets in.

2019, Robin Marty, Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN

The post-Roe rise in births in the U.S. will be concentrated in some of the worst states for infant and maternal health. Plans to improve these outcomes are staggeringly thin.

2022 December 16, Melissa Jeltsen, “We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023

Furthermore, he says, “in this #MeToo and post-Roe era [with the rollback of reproductive rights]^([sic]) we find ourselves in, the perceived risks associated with sex are higher, particularly for women.[…]

2023 April 26, Emine Saner, quoting Justin Lehmiller, “The rise of voluntary celibacy: ‘Most of the sex I’ve had, I wish I hadn’t bothered’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023