 Supporters of legal access to abortion, as well as anti-abortion activists, rally outside the Supreme Court on March 2, 2016. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images By Danielle Paquette and Kim Soffen If Donald Trump's Supreme Court of the future moves to overturn Roe v. Wade, access to legal abortion in the United States wouldn't vanish. But it would likely become staggeringly unequal — an option only for women who happen to live in a liberal state or have the money to travel to one. For a glimpse of this possible fate, look to the recent past. In 1970, New York became the first state to allow any woman to end a pregnancy without proving she'd been raped or that her health would fail if gestation continued. "Women flocked there," said Katha Pollitt, author of "Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights." "But low-income women, disproportionately women of color, were trapped in anti-abortion states." 
Before the Supreme Court decided to guarantee a woman's right to seek a legal abortion in 1973, making Roe the law of the land, the procedure was banned in 30 states. At the time New York struck down its abortion limitations, allowing women to terminate a pregnancy up to 24 weeks, only Hawaii offered similar access — but solely to residents. New York, however, upheld no residency requirement. Read the rest on Wonkblog. | 
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