AHC: No Roe

You challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1957, is for the Supreme Court to rule against McCorvey or similar defendant in similar case, and to ascertain the repercussions therefrom.
 
I'd suggest someone like Reagan becoming president in 1960 and appointing conservative justices, but it's hard to say since many of the justices who were in the majority in Roe v. Wade were appointed by Nixon and Eisenhower, and one who dissented was appointed by Kennedy. You might need a POD before 1957.
 
I'd suggest someone like Reagan becoming president in 1960 and appointing conservative justices, but it's hard to say since many of the justices who were in the majority in Roe v. Wade were appointed by Nixon and Eisenhower, and one who dissented was appointed by Kennedy. You might need a POD before 1957.

Reagan wasn't anything but a B Actor in 1960, and there's no way that someone like Reagan could get elected in 1960. The memory of the Depression is still too fresh for a laissez-faire Republican to win the Presidency.
 
When Ike left the White House, he was asked if he'd ever made any mistakes as President. "Yes, and they are both on the Supreme Court!":mad: I suppose if Eisenhower got the kind of justices he wanted, then abortion would not be legalized in 1973. But that throws a monkey wrench into the American political system that cannot even be imagined today. With the back alley abortionists still doing big business, the GOP might find the going just a little rougher in the last two decades of the 20th century.
 
When Ike left the White House, he was asked if he'd ever made any mistakes as President. "Yes, and they are both on the Supreme Court!":mad: I suppose if Eisenhower got the kind of justices he wanted, then abortion would not be legalized in 1973. But that throws a monkey wrench into the American political system that cannot even be imagined today. With the back alley abortionists still doing big business, the GOP might find the going just a little rougher in the last two decades of the 20th century.
Only two of Eisenhower's appointments were on the bench by 1973. The rest, including Warren, had retired. Granted, they were backers of allowing abortions.
 
When Ike left the White House, he was asked if he'd ever made any mistakes as President. "Yes, and they are both on the Supreme Court!":mad: I suppose if Eisenhower got the kind of justices he wanted, then abortion would not be legalized in 1973. But that throws a monkey wrench into the American political system that cannot even be imagined today. With the back alley abortionists still doing big business, the GOP might find the going just a little rougher in the last two decades of the 20th century.

Abortion was not "legalized" in 1973. Abortion was legal in some states and not legal in others. What Roe did was elevate the procedure to a Constitutionally protected right, which means that no state can prohibit it.

Without Roe it remains a state level issue. Liberal Northeastern and West Coast states allow it, more conservative Southern, Mid-Western and Western states prohibit it. It does not become the cultural landmine that it is in our timeline.
 
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