I must agree but disagree John Hardly -

Agree that they won't outright make it illegal because that would be unpopular with too many people. What are the numbers..?...? those (admittedly spinnable) polls have always shown thAt roughly 70% of Americans think abortion should be kept legal.

But, states will impose so many seemingly innocuous restrictions and hoops to jump through that they will effectively eliminate access to abortion for all except...(wait for it)...the wealthy!

Ahhh that's the ticket. Can't come right out and ban it or the poor working sods would see through all the stealth, and the rich wouldn't make the big campaign contributions that are needed to fund the TV commercials that keep us sods from seeing through the stealth.

See, the rich don't mind restrictions, but they wouldn't stand for outright ban. As Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe put it - people generally support a total ban on abortion as long as there are three exceptions: 1) life or health of the mother, 2) rape and incest, and 3) ME.