The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturns Roe v. Wade, and KPBS reached out to legal experts to help make sense of the lingering legal uncertainties and the potential impact years from now.
Since Roe v. Wade provided fundamental rights to privacy and body autonomy for people with uteri, its overturn removed those rights. As women can no longer trust how our data will be used against us while we travel outside of “safe-for-now” states, what are the steps politicians in California will take to ensure our data is safe and won’t be used against us in hostile states? – Sarina D.
What can we do to protect the remaining rights under the privacy umbrella from the same fate, and is there any way to restore abortion access to women, particularly to women of limited economic means, in states that have made it illegal? – Anonymous, VistaReinforced protection of the related privacy rights may come through adding those rights to state constitutions and through a litigation strategy, in the face of state measures to curtail those rights, that focuses on how and why...
You can also volunteer to register voters and encourage voting in states that have made abortion illegal, and donate to Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice organizations, which are continuing to fight for vital healthcare services and advocate for patients across the country. Laws in California, Massachusetts and other states laws now prohibiting state officials from cooperating in official investigations from other states where abortion is illegal may not be enough to avoid professional harm to the sender of such pills, such as doctors and pharmacists.
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