Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Dobbs, abortion access is once again in the hands of nine Justices. Next week, the Court will hear oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval process for mifepristone.
What the Alabama Supreme Court has done in ruling that an embryo counts as a child under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Child statute does not honor the experience of people navigating infertility. Instead the court weaponizes the psychological toll of fertility treatment in service of an extremist, ideological project to undermine reproductive freedom and autonomy.
The last year has been devastating. Even though advocates in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement have been sounding the alarm for years – decades, even – about what the fall of Roe v. Wade would mean, I wasn’t prepared for what that would actually look like. But as we mark one year since the Dobbs decision, I am choosing – despite everything – to lean into optimism, to believe in and build toward a future where abortion is truly available to everyone.
Most sexual assault is never reported,often because survivors distrust or fear the police, or believe that the police can’t or won’t do anything to help.
Over the past couple of years, the Trump administration has aggressively sidelined science in policymaking – whether by suppressing or misrepresenting evidence, undermining federal grants, or selecting unqualified and conflicted appointees to lead agencies and programs. As a result, our nation’s public health and well-being are suffering.
