Family Planning Plans for a Post-Roe Future

With Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation before the Supreme Court, the long-standing goal of the anti-abortion movement and the long-term fear of choice advocates – a decision restricting or completely ending the right enunciated in Roe v. Wade – is more likely than at any time since 1973. Nobody knows what form such a decision might take, but both parties are preparing for a future that could bring things back to the status quo prior to Roe, when each state adopts its own laws governing abortion. .

With the elevation of Kavanaugh, the future has become present and strategies, so far theoretical, have multiplied.

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The new "return to states" approach is based on the assumption that Roe is unlikely to be completely and formally reversed in the short term. But even without the phrase "Roe vs. Wade is officially arguable," the newly conservative Supreme Court can effectively recover the right.

"Experts seem to agree that undercutting is more likely than reversal," says Elizabeth Nash, state affairs manager for the Guttmacher Institute. "The practical effect is essentially the same."

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"Access to abortion is already different from one state to the next," said Daniela Kraiem, associate director of the Women and Law Program at American University Washington College. of Law. "Even with Roe in place, access to abortion is very different if you are in Louisiana or California."

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At least 13 cases of this type are pending in federal courts, and the one that is receiving all attention now concerns similar laws in Alabama and Texas banning the procedure of dilation and evacuation, procedure used at 95% for abortions. the 14th week. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeal declared the Alabama law based on Roe unconstitutional; the court of the fifth circuit must hear the law of Texas the day before polling day. The fifth circuit court is one of the most conservative in the country, and if it upheld what the neighboring 11th circuit court had invalidated, the split could lead the Supreme Court to take the case.

This is why the projects announced in recent days by pro-choice groups are putting more emphasis on the state legislatures. Groups such as NARAL and the Family Planning Action Fund plan to increase their support for pro-choice candidates in anti-abortion states, while lobbying for legislatures that are traditionally supportive of choice. to codify the rights of abortion in the constitution of the state.

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This leaves many blue states, particularly in New York, with pre-Roe laws that could potentially become the default rule in a post-Roe environment. When New York became the first state to authorize abortion in 1970, it was "a big step forward," says Nash, but the specifics of this law – no. authorizing abortion only for 24 weeks unless the woman's life is in danger – "do not do it". Not even respect the current standard of the Supreme Court, which is allowed up to the age of viability and to protect the life and health of the woman. "

"Over the years, efforts have been made to update the law in New York, but it has never been very successful," she says. "Now people pay a lot more attention," she says, and predicts that a repeal or revision of this law will be passed by the next legislature.

Keeping in mind the realities of the map, the Planned Parenthood Action League announced a program called Care for All, calling for strengthening laws in already-friendly states, such as pending legislation guaranteeing access to abortion for women receiving public assistance in Illinois, requires insurance. companies pay for abortions in Maine and eliminate various barriers to abortion and birth control in Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.

These states and others would then be part of what Laguens describes as a planned "regional access network". It would connect women – through telemedicine or transportation – who live in States with abortion restrictions to providers in more liberal states of the Northeast, Coast, or outposts such as Illinois and Maryland.

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Planned Parenthood, in turn, includes "culture change" in its recently announced strategy. Part of it will have a national reach – working with film and television creators to include "real-life sensitive representations" of abortion on screens, said Kevin Griffith, vice -President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. But many will also be local, aiming to "reduce stigma in our lives, our workspaces and our relationships".

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