SOURCE: By Amy Forliti and Geoff Mulvhill

Abortion-rights activist rally at the Indiana Statehouse following Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 25, 2022 in Indianapolis. Anti-abortion groups are looking to the courts, lawmakers and elections to facilitate more abortion restrictions and bans after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June left the issue up to states. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)

Now that Roe v. Wade has been toppled, abortion opponents are taking a multifaceted approach in their quest to end abortions nationwide, targeting their strategies to the dynamics of each state as they attempt to create new laws and defend bans in courts.

One anti-abortion group has proposed model legislation that would ban all abortions except to prevent the death of a pregnant woman. New legal frontiers could include prosecuting doctors who defy bans, and skirmishes over access to medication abortions already are underway. Others hope to get more conservatives elected in November to advance an anti-abortion agenda.

“For Republicans, the post-Roe world will be significantly different, from a legal perspec- tive,” said Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School.

“For the last 50 years,Republicans have been on the offense by chipping away on the offense on the edges of Roe. Now they are going to be playing defense in all 50 states.”

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