The cost of having unwanted children is massive. This is a macroeconomics issue for all young folks.
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The decision was written to provide a roadmap to the next group wanting to sue.
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This court is great for tossing hot issues into the hands of Congress. I would suggest the same thing is happening here. As some states have not gotten on board with banning abortion, the drumbeat for Congress, the body SCOTUS said should decide the issue, to impose a national ban has gotten louder.
Steve
Not only that, don’t forget when voters in states are asked to vote on abortion they have always voted in favor. In Ohio they voted a constitutional ammendment in favor. The GOP response in Ohio? “This is not over”.
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The same sort of amendment was passed by “We The People” in Michigan. But state laws can be overridden at the Federal level. The SCOTUS has already ruled that partisan gerrymanders are perfectly fine. Additionally, some states are moving beyond simple gerrymandering. iirc, there is a law under consideration in Texas to decree that state wide elections, like for Governor, will be decided by how many counties are carried by a candidate, not how many people vote for a candidate, sort of a state analog to the national electoral college.
Steve
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The Texas GOP knows they are losing power and this is what they do to cling to power. Not appeal to voters. Roughly half the state lives in 4 counties and we have 254 counties. There is no way possible to justify what they are trying to do other than as a complete power grab against the will of the majority of the people.
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Same thing in Michigan. The state-wide votes for Gov, Sec of State, and AG would flip from one side to the other periodically, but one faction had a firm grip on the legislature for forty years, due to their gerrymander of voting districts.
A few years ago “We The People” took redistricting away from the legislature and set up a bi-partisan board to handle the job. The result was the one party control was broken, and the other party gained control, by a narrow margin.
Here is a map, by county, of how Michigan voted in 2020. The southeastern corner of the state is densely populated, with large minority and union votes. Most of the state north of a line from Grand Rapids, through Lansing, to Saginaw, is sparsely populated.
This narrative that area should count for more in elections that votes of “We The People” is probably an outgrowth of 2020. After the 2020 election, there were a lot of people complaining about the vote, by showing maps with the west coast and north east, with small areas of one color, and the vast, nearly empty of people, plains, another color, implying that area should count for more than people.
Steve
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Excuse the poor resolution Steve, but here is the map you are referring to nation wide, showing red and blue by PERSON, not land area. Because people vote, not land of course.
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CT pays women to have babies. The pay is meant to partially offset lost income for families.
The idea is to offer a better educational start to young kids at the same time.
There is a huge dose of ignorance to wanting procreation but denying economic help.
The workforce in CT 20 years from now will be excellent.
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Yes, those are the sort of maps I have seen posted, with commentary that they show “the vast majority of the country is red, but the system is fundamentally wrong, because those small bits of blue rule”. Of course, the people saying that are the faction whose POTUS candidate has only won the popular vote once in the last 30 years, but sometimes takes office due to the overweighted votes in the sparsely populated areas.
Interpreted another way, the people of that faction are saying property should rule, not people. Texas rancher says “I vote my 500.000 acres this way, so I override the 500,000 people, who each only own a half acre in the burbs.”
I suppose we should include some economic content. 
If this thinking continues, then capital will decide elections, not people. So, we can look forward to extremely capital friendly economic policies. Recall the policies here in Michigan not long ago, where road maintenance and education were partly defunded, and taxes increased on retirees and the working poor, to pay for two rounds of tax cuts for the “JCs”.
Steve
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