In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, the conservative justices rejected the idea that it is a fundamental human right for women to have agency over their own bodies and ruled that state lawmakers can exert control over part of what is in fact a spectrum of reproductive health care that all people who can become pregnant will likely need to some degree. It’s a spectrum because all reproductive health experiences are connected, and the accessibility and safety of abortion care is essential to ensuring that pregnancy, childbirth, and miscarriage can be safe too. There aren’t some people who have children and others who have abortions; we’re the same people at different points in our lives.
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