'This dystopian system has been forced on this country's 330 million people by five unelected Republican Supreme Court justices, all of whom have lifetime appointments.'
The United States Supreme Court has overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed the right to an abortion for half a century. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is devastating in its own right, but also foreshadows how this extremist rightwing majority on the Supreme Court could destroy more than a century of progress.
"Forty percent of women of childbearing age or more will be affected," Kathryn Kolbert said on the Democracy Now! news hour in the wake of the decision. Kolbert co-founded the Center for Reproductive Rights and argued the landmark Supreme Court case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992. The Dobbs decision also overturns Casey, which solidified the precedent set by Roe.
"I am extremely concerned," Kamyon Conner, executive director of the Texas Equal Access Fund, said on Democracy Now!"Our abortion fund specifically is on the radar of anti-abortion extremists and our conservative elected officials. We have received cease-and-desist letters about our work, tweets saying that they will target us for felony penalties for continuing our work.
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