I’m not sure that everyone really understood how deep and wide this was going to be.
JJ: People are changing decisions about where they’re going to live, about where they’re going to go to college or where they’re going to practice medicine. And we’ve just had the one-year anniversary, and we haven’t stopped working since that decision was handed down last year, both in the states and at the federal level, and just doing what we can, organizing and trying to get folks tuned in and working together to hold the line and protect the access we can, and expand it in the places where we can expand it. Folks are being forced to travel hundreds of miles, in some cases, when they’re pushed completely out of their reach in their states.Īnd there’s just all kinds of instances in the news that we’re hearing about horrific situations that folks who are trying to access care are having to experience.Īnd again, it’s just like you said, it was not a surprise, but we are facing the realities of that every day, and countless stories about how pregnant people are being denied abortion access, and being denied lifesaving care in the case of miscarriages and all sorts of medical complications.Īnd it’s devastating, but we as always at NARAL are working really hard to push back and do what we can in the wake of the decision. You mentioned that 20 states have already eliminated and restricted access to abortion. We anticipated this happening, and unfortunately a lot of the things we were worried about, we are seeing play out. TA: As you alluded to, a lot of this isn’t unexpected. So if you’re trying to explain the impacts of the Dobbs ruling-expected, unexpected-where do you even start? JJ: Most people will have a general sense, but, as always, things look different depending where you are and who you are. Taryn Abbassian: Thank you so much for having me. We’re joined now by Taryn Abbassian, associate research director at NARAL. So what have folks been doing, and what needs to be done to address its devastating effects? And what role can media play? Jackson Women’s Health Organization was anticipated, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we were ready. One professor of health law was quoted saying, “It’s like somebody dropped a nuclear bomb into public health.” They include, of course, restricting people’s access to abortion-some 20 states have passed either bans or very restrictive policies-but also hampering the ability to access a range of pregnancy-related and general healthcare. It’s been a year since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, and the avalanche of consequences is still growing. That’s coming up this week on CounterSpin, brought to you each week by the media watch group FAIR. We’ll hear a little today from FAIR’s Julie Hollar from Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of the group URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity and from URGE’s policy director, Preston Mitchum.
CounterSpin has listened many times over the years to advocates and authors working on this issue. We’ll hear from Taryn Abbassian, associate research director at NARAL.Īlso on the show: Meaningful, lasting response to the Dobbs ruling requires more than “vote blue no matter who,” but actually understanding and addressing the differences and disparities of abortion rights and access before Dobbs, which requires an expansive understanding of reproductive justice. The impacts of that ruling are still reverberating, as is the organized pushback that we can learn about and support. Key to that drop in public support was last year’s Dobbs ruling, overturning something Americans overwhelmingly support, and had come to see as a fundamental right: that of people to make their own decisions about when or whether to carry a pregnancy or to have a child. The US public’s belief in and support for the Supreme Court has plummeted with the appointment of hyper-partisan justices whose unwillingness to answer basic questions, or answer them respectfully, would make them unqualified to work at many a Wendy’s, and the obviously outcome-determinative nature of their jurisprudence.
We will certainly talk about that going forward. Janine Jackson: The Supreme Court has just, as we record, dismantled affirmative action in college admissions, part of a concerted right-wing campaign to sabotage multiracial democracy.
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