So this decision at first glance founded on the "states' rights" claim that conservatives seem so fond of applying to controversial issues (like like the ownership of slaves, civil rights, equal rights for women, et al.). “Local government is better,” they claim. But when states seem poised to pass legislation that conservative demagogues disagree with, the "states' rights" argument is jettisoned in favor of the loco parentis right of Big Government to legislate behavior (gun control, mask mandates, et al.)

And that's what Republicans, who control a majority of states but are supported by a minority of the public opinion about Roe v. Wade, are prepared to do. If they get their way, we won't have a system in which abortion is illegal in some states but but not in others (which is bad enough in itself, singling out poor women who can't afford to travel from Florida to North Carolina, for example).

No, as Mitch McConnel has suggested today in an interview for USA Today, many Republicans are planning to outlaw abortion nationally. The more control they gain over the lives of all American citizens, the more they'll seek to expand their control.