Masses of protesters converged on cities across the country Friday after the Supreme Court effectively struck down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, siding with the state of Mississippi in the Dobbs v. Jackson case – with many acting as if abortions had been banned nationwide.

In response, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., explained to Fox News that in reality "nothing has been banned" – as the ruling simply reserved the regulatory power over abortion laws to the state legislatures, as prescribed by the 10th Amendment for those powers not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution.

"What we've seen over the last few hours is how, unfortunately, American political coverage has become childish and unserious," Rubio said.

"And that's exactly what they're telling people: They make you think if you watch some of these tweets and … reporting, you think abortion's been banned – nothing's been banned."

Rubio laid out how the 6-3 decision expressed the Constitution gives people the right to "decide through their elected representatives in each individual state whether they want to allow abortion prohibited or and how they want to regulate it.:

"The reason why they're having this left-wing meltdown… is that as long as they had Roe v Wade, they didn't have to worry about having that debate."

Rubio said pro-abortion Democrats never had to argue the validity of their positions on terminating pregnancies and taxpayer funding thereof because Roe v. Wade posed a sweeping national standard.

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