The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: An estimated 40 million women of childbearing age will lose access to abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it would strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The highest court in the land announced the ruling on a case brought by Mississippi that seeks to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Some 13 U.S. states have “trigger laws” to immediately ban abortion in those states following Roe’s reversal.
“‘Millions of people would have to travel hundreds of miles to receive abortion care, with the average distance increasing from 25 miles to an estimated 125 miles. ‘” C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a nonprofit that supports abortions rights, said numerous state legislatures will ban abortion outright, “leaving women in those states — especially low-income women and women of color — without access to this most basic of reproductive health services.” She called it a “dark day for American democracy.
Citing data from the Guttmacher Institute, they estimate that 58% of women of childbearing potential — roughly 40 million — will lose the right to abortion in the wake of Roe’s reversal. “Millions of people would have to travel hundreds of miles to receive abortion care, with the average distance increasing from 25 miles to an estimated 125 miles. The percentage of people living more than 200 miles away from an abortion clinic would increase from 1% to an estimated 29%.
“I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk and I am proud to keep that promise today,” he said in a statement. “From the moment life begins at conception is when we have a responsibility as human beings to do everything we can to protect that baby’s life and the life of the mother.”
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