Abortion Rights in a Post-Roe World

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion. Fifty years of abortion rights down the drain. But was it really?

We can’t ignore the tension that is often missing in how we report on Roe. Yes—the Constitutional right to abortion gave people a powerful tool for freedom. But Roe was also the floor, built on a shaky legal foundation and so easily overridden that sizable swaths of the country—namely in the South and the Midwest—only had a theoretical freedom.

While experts in the abortion rights movement are navigating the post-Roe hellscape differently, there are essential understandings to take from their honesty and their commitment to continue fighting.

Here’s your guide on the state of abortion rights and the reproductive justice, health, and rights movement in a post-Roe landscape.

One year post-Roe is an as-told-to series led by Prism’s Editor-at-Large Tina Vásquez, marking the milestone by featuring new and veteran advocates and organizers, abortion storytellers, providers, clinic directors, abortion fund volunteers, and reproductive justice organizers.

One year later

‘People treat us like the throwaway state’

Alabama has the strictest anti-abortion law in the U.S., but it doesn’t receive the same level of resources and support as other Southern states

by Tina Vásquez

‘Teens are the most marginalized group when it comes to abortion care’

Young people are often absent in nationwide conversations about abortion access, though they experience the most extreme barriers to care

by Tina Vásquez

‘Abortion access in North Carolina has always been precarious’

North Carolina’s 12-week ban came down to a single lawmaker, illustrating the fragility of abortion rights in the state

by Tina Vásquez

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Abortion Rights

Post-Dobbs, abortion and trans rights converge in the fight for bodily autonomy

The reproductive justice movement has become more intersectional than ever three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, advocates say

by Nick Fulton

Three years after Dobbs, abortion hasn’t ended—it’s moved across state lines

Advocates and physicians reflect on the precarious realities of abortion access across the country

by Alexandra Martinez

Three years post-Roe, midwives are targets of criminalization

The arrest of a Texas midwife for allegedly providing abortion care highlights the sidelining of midwifery’s sacred work

by Sarah Michal Hamid

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Reproductive Health, Justice, & Rights Movement

Who shows up when Black women die during childbirth?

About 20 Black women die each year in New York City from pregnancy-related causes. The grassroots group Movement to Birth Liberation helps the families left behind

by Mariana Navarrete Villegas

What it’s like to be pregnant in jail

Behind bars, pregnant women are ignored at best, abused and traumatized at worst

by Marissa Potts

EXCLUSIVE: Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here?

Repro workers and tech experts reveal startling gaps between the promises offered by abortion technologies and the realities facing abortion-seekers and support workers

by Nicole Froio and Jade Jasmine Hurley

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