America is waking up to the nightmare of women being jailed for abortions

Abortion law and in many states will jail women and doctors now that Supreme Court ended Roe

What do you do when the U.S. Supreme Court says your past reproductive choices could have earned you a prison sentence?

As women who have had abortions, that is the question we ask ourselves after the court threw out 50 years of precedent that protected the right to abortion care when it reversed Roe v. Wade last month. 

Without this protection in place, many states are outlawing abortion. That means we need to be prepared to see women incarcerated for their family planning decisions. Think that’s a doomsday prediction? These arrests and punishments have already been happening for quite some time, and the floodgates could open now that new laws with severe penalties are being considered.

While anti-abortion forces like to gloss over it, patients are already being prosecuted for their own abortions in mostly unpublicized cases.

While the intent to criminalize patients has not been made explicit, some states have been clear that doctors, nurses, clinic staff, abortion fund staff and volunteers, as well as friends and family who help patients in obtaining an abortion, will face legal consequences.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/abortion-laws-punishing-women-supreme-court-ended-roe-rcna36268


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