With a conservative majority on the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Court stripped away the federal protections for abortion in the decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization earlier this year. Amid the expected outrage from large swaths of the nation’s population, the Democratic party seized the opportunity to leverage the fervor into voter turnout.
—Arjun Narayan
Read MoreBarnard University, a sister school of Columbia University, recently released a plan to grant students access to on-campus abortion pills as a part of their free student healthcare plan. After the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade—the United States’ Supreme Court case regarding universal abortion rights—access to abortions across the country have been more challenging to come by.
—Sophie Dalfonsi
Read MoreAbortion access across the country is far from equal. As conservative lawmakers restricted access further by placing abortion on the list of restricted “elective” or “non-essential” procedures, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed how vulnerable reproductive rights are.
— Claire Cutler
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