Supreme Court Set to Eviscerate Abortion Rights

By granting cert in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the conservative justices have given themselves the opportunity to end abortion rights as we know them.

Dobbs is the culmination of anti-abortion politicians’ decades-long fight to end safe and legal abortion, a crusade that has always been about power — about who has the power to choose to make decisions and who has decisions forced on them. And as the leaked draft opinion by Justice Alito indicates, abortion may be the first of many rights to fall as the Court dismantles privacy protections, inlcuding contraception access, interracial marriage, marriage equality, and private sexual relationships.

As the Court barrels forward with its radical agenda and repeals the last century of progress, millions could lose their fundamental rights to their own bodies, reproductive decisions, privacy, and the right to live in a democracy that respects women, trans, and nonbinary people as full and equal citizens.