Opinion: The Fall Of Roe v. Wade Is Going To Hurt You In Ways You Can't Foresee

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association have also condemned anti-abortion laws.
63% : States led by anti-abortion politicians have spent decades making abortion access nearly impossible through targeted regulations of abortion providers, or TRAP laws.
63% : Anti-abortion lawmakers manifestly have no intention of helping pregnant people have successful pregnancies, safe deliveries or healthy children.
51% : Abortion is significantly safer than pregnancy -- period.
51% : Sen. John Cornyn of Texas tweeted: "Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education," referring to the decision desegregating public schools.
43% : Abortion is not as divisive as hard-line opponents want us to believe.
43% : Recently, for example, some pharmacists have refused to fill misoprostol prescriptions, which can be used for management of miscarriage or abortion -- or treatment of gastric ulcers.
42% : While it's certainly true that abortion will continue, this sentiment is not entirely correct.
38% : For comparison, the death rate from abortion in the U.S. between 2013 and 2018 (the most recent data available) was 0.41 per 100,000 abortions -- which means abortion is 25 times safer than continuing pregnancy.
38% : If a pharmacist dispenses a medication that results in abortion -- for treatment of cancer, say, or autoimmune conditions -- are they responsible for murder in the eyes of the law?
36% : Instead, we are moving toward a darker future of increased legal surveillance and criminalization of all people who can become pregnant, regardless of their feelings about abortion.
35% : According to the Pew Research Center, 61% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while only 37% believe it should be illegal in all or most cases.
34% : Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case legalizing abortion, has been overturned, and we are grappling with the profound loss of bodily autonomy and personhood that was stolen.
28% : The politicians banning abortion falsely claim they are protecting women, while having the worst maternal outcomes in the nation.

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