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Then any order by the court does not apply to anyone except the individual(s) involved the the case. Thus, no state or federal law can prohibit abortion--because each individual woman would have to be personally/individually sued in order to enforce such a law at any level.

I don't follow the logic. In this very specific aspect, there's no real change here.

If a state prohibits abortion, it's making it illegal for anyone to perform that procedure (that's usually the form these laws primarily take). The way these laws work is that anyone can still go out and perform abortions, but if you do perform an abortion the state can "personally/individually" arrest you and take you to trial and put you in jail. Enforcing laws through criminal penalties is almost always a "personal/individual" process today.

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