As advocates and researchers have seen, it is African women and girls who are suffering because of the United States’ interference with reproductive autonomy globally.
“If Roe is reversed, the legality of abortion is left up to the states and, at present, only seventeen states affirmatively protect the right to abortion. That’s why lawmakers are acting now.”
New Jersey's incoming Democratic governor has vowed to restore the Planned Parenthood funding, calling it “mission critical” and a matter of “life and death.”
President Donald Trump's most powerful attorneys are arguing in Hargan v. Garza that the federal government has the right to unilaterally block access to abortions for undocumented minors in its custody. This sets up a direct attack on Roe’s legacy.
On this anniversary of the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, illustrator Jennifer Camper's visual guide is a sobering reminder of the many methods women have used to terminate pregnancies when abortion was not legal or available. The comic was first published in the Comics for Choice anthology.
