Pregnant people in many states are already forced to cross state lines to get care. Access to reproductive care, including abortion, is already under immense strain, with OB-GYNs booked out for months in some areas and abortion providers often wrenched beyond capacity.
As Reproductive Justice movement leaders have long said, Roe is the floor, not the ceiling.Įlting: Obviously, this is a huge issue for women, not only in states pursuing extreme abortion restrictions and bans, but across the country. And to be clear, access to abortion has long been unequal in this country. That’s why the movements for reproductive rights and justice have continually sounded the alarm on the need to protect the right to abortion and to expand access on the state and federal levels. We know that for as long as Roe has been the law of the land-that’s nearly 50 years!-there has been a small but vocal opposition trying to undermine the right to abortion, and they’ve managed to pull the levers of power to push their agenda. McGill Johnson: History tells us that movements are never settled, not even by a landmark court decision.
