At issue in the pendingDobbscase is a Mississippi 15-week gestational ban that would allow states to outlawabortionbefore viability.
An initialDobbsdraft,which leaked late May 2in an extraordinarily rare breach of Supreme Court protocol, explicitly overturnsRoeandCasey.
Its not just continued attacks onRoethat restrict abortion access, however.
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Abortion restrictions are nothing new for millions of people.
In March, Missouri Republicans backed off their bid to prevent the first-line treatment ofectopic pregnancieswith medication.
Even proposed bans embolden anti-abortion lawmakers and can have disastrous consequences in clinical care.
Proposed post-Roesolutions aim to increase abortion access through a reproductive justice lens.
Mifepristone is so safe,ACOG says, that the remaining regulations on it should go as well.
Local and state governments likewise can do much more than theyre doing.
We know it can happen in the South because it happened in Austin, Njoku says.
Outside of clinical options, abortion researchers expect rising interest in and demand for self-managed medication abortions.
Prosecutors need to just decide theyre not going to prosecute these cases, Marschall tells SELF.
We need to get the cops out of care.
So, whats next afterRoe?
All abortion bans have a chilling effect, Christensen tells SELF.
Why should the future of abortion look like its grim past or, for that matter, grimmer present?
Roeis the floor, not the ceiling, is a common reproductive justice saying.
Its becoming a more widely echoed refrain for abortion whennot ifDobbstakes outRoe.
