Instead, the states and Congress would have the power to regulate abortion or to allow prayer if they chose to do so.

Questions about how to regulate or restrict abortion have long been issues in state races.

Since this ruling, there have been no criminal laws regulating abortion in Canada.

That careful compromise limited, but did not cast aside, a state's ability to regulate abortion.

He also draft the legislation regulating abortion passed by the Utah legislature in the early 1990s.

He said the Court could do so by reinstating a state law regulating abortions for minors.

If Roe were overruled, those legislatures would decide how to regulate abortion.

Before Roe v. Wade, the states were free to regulate abortion.

This would be their first real test of strength since the Supreme Court's decision expanding state authority to regulate abortions.

She noted that the court's precedents recognized two state interests in regulating abortion, a woman's health and the potential life of the fetus.