It reaffirmed the central holding in Roe v. Wade.

Sam is not going to overturn Roe v. Wade.

He essentially did not answer the Roe v. Wade question,

For 20 years or so there had been a movement to chip away at Roe v Wade by adding barriers to abortion access. But now it seems that conservatives are emboldened by the new make-up of the supreme court and are trying a new approach by directly challenging Roe.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

It would be very difficult ... for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember ... what it was like when abortion was illegal in America ... As a college student at Stanford, I watched the passing of the plate to collect money so a young woman could go to Tijuana for a back-alley abortion. I knew a woman who killed herself because she was pregnant.