Monday, June 24, marked two years since the Trump-stacked Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade; since then, 14 U.S. states have total bans on abortion, while 27 states have bans based on gestational duration.
In cities and rural areas across the U.S., activists marched and rallied across the country to mark the second anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the landmark decision that revoked the constitutional right to abortion.
The mobilization comes as abortion access has become increasingly under attack since Roe‘s fall:
- In 2023, more than 171,000 women traveled out of their home states for abortion care.
- The rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. falls is more than three times the rate of other high-income countries.
- States without total abortion bans experienced a 25 percent increase in abortions 2023 compared to 2020.
Just three days after activists took to the streets, the Supreme Court dismissed both Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States. This ruling temporarily uphold the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act‘s preemption of Idaho’s abortion law—for now. The decision is more of a delay than a win for abortion rights supporters as the Court has refused to decide on the essential question: Do pregnant women deserve the same life-saving medical treatment awarded to everyone else?
The Idaho and Moyle decisions are just one example of how abortion access has become increasingly threatened in the two years since the Dobbs decision.
From across the U.S., here are some of our favorite signs expressing dissatisfaction with the current attacks against abortion in a post-Roe world.
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Florida
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North Carolina
Oklahoma
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Washington, D.C.
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