“The promise made here by the states rights arguers is that once things get kicked to the states, big government goes away. Rubbish. What you get is 50x the arguments because in every state there will be anti-abortion crusaders who will never rest until all possible abortion is stopped.”
And you get pro-abortion crusaders who will never rest until all possible abortion is legal and tax-funded.
In practice, most states would limit but not prohibit abortion, because there is an overwhelming majority that, quite inconsistently, doesn’t want abortion prohibited, but finds the use of it as secondary (and even primary) birth control repulsive.
Some states would certainly leave abortion legal and loosely regulated, and I would expect that pro-abortion advocates would spend a lot of money on bus tickets and airline tickets to help poor, pregnant women go to other states to have abortions.
