What a day. After 20 punts the Supreme Court has agreed to take on the Mississippi abortion case that could overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion as we know it. Trump’s 6-3 Supreme Court announced today that it’s taking a Mississippi case that bans abortion after 15 weeks. If they rule it constitutional, Roe v. Wade is dead and so is the federal constitutional right to an abortion. Trump set up a lower court system and a Supreme Court hostile to abortion, so extremist legislatures have taken advantage of that by feverishly passing “trigger bans,” AKA laws that say the second Roe is overturned, abortion instantly becomes illegal. Ten states already have these bans. How many other states will now rush to pass their own trigger bans, making it impossible for the most vulnerable people to access care? |
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Abortion Access Front has been sounding the alarm as we have watched state legislatures do this for years, passing laws that immediately ban abortion if Roe is overturned. And we’re terrified that with the help of Trump’s courts, they’re set up just perfectly to steamroll abortion access throughout the US. Our friends on the ground in Mississippi explain it this way: “Mississippi has a trigger ban, so if Roe falls, abortion is illegal here in MS within 24 hours," reported Kim Gibson from We Engage and the Pinkhouse Defenders, which work with the state's ONLY independent abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization. And in a statement, the executive director of the Yellowhammer Fund Lori Bertram Roberts (also the founder of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund) added, “No matter what the Supreme Court decides in the summer of 2022 regarding Roe, abortion will always remain a human right — even if it is no longer a constitutional one.” Regardless of the status of Roe, hundreds of racist restrictions and arbitrary regulations that prevent people from accessing abortion will continue to be enacted in states across the country. We need you to stay vigilant with us. Stay tuned for ways to take direct action to defend Roe and join the fight beyond SCOTUS to make abortion accessible for everyone. And join us in supporting the organizations on the ground in Mississippi who are fighting like hell every day for bodily autonomy and Reproductive Justice. In Solidarity,
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