Friend,
We are outraged at the Supreme Court’s ruling rolling back abortion rights for pregnant people! Everyone should have the freedom to control their own body without punishment and every choice should be protected with safe, legal access to care — this is a core belief at the Drug Police Alliance.
An attack on autonomy for some of us is an attack on autonomy for all of us. This essential struggle for bodily autonomy is a shared fight that connects social justice movements from drug policy to abortion and beyond.
DPA stands in solidarity with fellow advocates, allies, and Americans who, like us, are rightfully enraged and disappointed with today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark law that has protected the choice to have an abortion as a constitutional right nationwide since 1973.
It’s a shameful setback with severe, deadly consequences for countless lives, families, and communities that will unfairly fall on people of color and people with low-income. As we’ve witnessed with drugs, prohibition will not stop abortion, but it will force pregnant people into unsafe, life-threatening conditions to access it while stigmatizing and criminalizing them for simply trying to make the best — sometimes difficult — decisions about their own lives.
Abortion is just one front of the attack on pregnant people’s rights; drugs are another. Our close allies at National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) are leading the effort to end the ways our health and civil systems commonly use actual or suspected drug use as justification to demonize and punish pregnant people, instead of helping them. DPA is proud to work alongside NAPW and other allies to expose the devastating consequences from criminalization to forced drug testing to children being taken away from their families and placed in the family regulation system, which all too often causes more harm than good.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling sets a dangerous precedent that will have chilling ramifications for all causes like ours that are united in the fight for basic bodily autonomy and access to safe, non-judgmental care. That’s why we must continue to stand together across movements to build a better world that respects the health, dignity, and human rights that all of us deserve.
In solidarity,
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Kassandra Frederique
Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
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