The MAGA majority on the Supreme Court has made no secret of its hostility to abortion rights in our country. The Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs, which overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision—its highest profile attack on abortion to date—has thrown reproductive rights into chaos across the country.
In states with strict abortion bans or severe restrictions, women have been forced to continue to carry pregnancies that were no longer viable, and some have even died of entirely preventable miscarriage complications. In some areas, hospitals have shut down their labor and delivery departments entirely, causing a desert of not just abortion care, but pregnancy care overall.
The horrors don’t end there. In one particularly appalling instance, a pregnant patient in Georgia was kept alive on life support long enough to deliver her unborn child—against her family’s wishes—because the state’s “personhood” law gave her fetus the same rights as a person.
The Court’s ruling in Dobbs opened the door to all of this carnage. But the justices, and the vast network of anti-abortion, extreme right-wing lawyers and litigation firms, are nowhere near done chipping away at what’s left of our bodily autonomy and our ability to make our own choices.
MAGA activist lawyers and judges have boundless creativity when it comes to stripping Americans of their rights, and they are particularly committed to banning abortion nationally. They won’t sleep until abortion rights are ripped from every American, and a recent “wrongful death” suit, as well as an attempt to challenge New York’s abortion shield law, are just two examples of how the anti-choice right hopes to use the MAGA Supreme Court majority to overturn abortion rights once and for all.
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