Prior to Roe, single people weren’t even allowed to use contraception. Until 1972, that right was restricted to married people. After the Roe ruling, the government was still allowed to restrict abortion access based on the stage of the pregnancy.
And this created a loophole that countless states and institutions exploited to force people to keep their pregnancies. Even before Roe was officially overturned, activists had long warned that it was headed out the door, as abortion rights were sharply curtailed through a growing network of restrictions.
People had to get permission from their parents, their partner, or whoever impregnated them; they had to listen to the fetal heartbeat or see a sonogram. They had to wait a certain amount of time, ostensibly to reflect on their choices but really to simply run out the clock on when they could get an abortion.
