When the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in 2022, abortion was no longer federally protected. Instead, abortion rights became a state-by-state decision. Anticipating the fall of Roe v. Wade, conservatives across the country quickly passed trigger laws that immediately went into effect following the Supreme Court’s decision, and other reproductive rights are being targeted by GOP officials daily.
But while the GOP continues to target reproductive rights— most recently, a new rule by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would permit pharmacies to dispense abortion pills including mifepristone and misoprostol— Democrats and liberals also refuse to give up. Bringing hope in what has been a disheartening post-Roe era, a federal judge said Monday that there is a chance abortion could still be federally protected despite the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
