Abortion Rights Are in Chaos. What Now?

Texas is just the start of this crisis.

Photo of a sign that reads The Burden Is Undue in the shape of Texas
Texas is getting massively hosed on abortion access by the Supreme Court. Other states will be next. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Last night, the Supreme Court made it official: the brutal, blatantly unconstitutional Texas abortion ban is hunky-doryRoe v. Wade? Not so much.

Is there any chance of the Texas ban still being overturned? Will other states pass copycat laws? Is there any hope of a federal bill enshrining abortion rights? On the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy end an alarming week by peering into our very messy future.

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