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Post Roe: The Supreme Court Won’t Stop at Abortion
June 24, 2022
In a landmark decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court has voted to overturn both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, eliminating a 50-year precedent and the constitutional right to an abortion.
We expect half of the states across the country to ban abortion either immediately or in the coming days, weeks or months. Pregnant people in these states will now be forced to carry their pregnancies to term.
This decision was expected in some ways, a draft opinion for the case was leaked in May, revealing the intent to overturn the right to access an abortion in the U.S. but I’m not sure anything could truly prepare us for the reality we are now facing. So much is at stake.
Joining us to help us break down the decision and discuss what we all can do in response are Jen Dalven, Director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, Ria Tabacco Mar, Director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, and Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director and Director of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty at the ACLU.
To donate to support our fight against this attack on reproductive autonomy and all the attacks that follow, please visit aclu.org/keepfighting. To join our new abortion activist training RSVP at aclu.org/AbortionActivist.
In this episode
![Louise Melling](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/louise_melling_square_1000x1000-150x150.jpg)
Louise Melling
Deputy Legal Director and Director of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty, ACLU
![Ria Tabacco Mar](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/01/ria_tabacco-scaled-150x150.jpg)
Ria Tabacco Mar
Director, Women’s Rights Project
![Headshot of Jennifer Dalven](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/12/Jennifer-Dalven-150x150.jpg)
Jennifer Dalven
Director, Reproductive Freedom Project, ACLU
Kendall Ciesemier
Former Host of At Liberty and Senior Executive Producer of Multimedia, American Civil Liberties Union
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