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SCOTUS Abortion Rights Decision One-Pager Context: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court considered a case to determine the constitutionality of a Mississippi law banning all abortions after 15 weeks.

This put two Supreme Court precedents into question: Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992).

These cases both found and then later upheld that women have the constitutional right to an abortion.
What Today’s Decision Says: Today, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices violated a nearly 50-year precedent by erroneously finding that the Constitution – specifically the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment – does not protect the right to abortion.

The Court calls abortion as a constitutionally protected right “egregiously wrong from the start,” stripping this fundamental right from women across the U.S.
Implications: Abortion is now banned in 13 states in the first and second trimester because of this decision.

Moreover, this decision empowers state legislators and anti-abortion activists to pursue bans and severely restrict other abortion protections.

This will have a disparate impact on minority and impoverished women, causing individuals to seek dangerous methods to self-manage a pregnancy or carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
Threats to Other Rights: Equally as troubling, Justice Alito claimed that any Due Process right must be “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” This leaves room for anti-abortion activists to challenge the constitutionality of basic reproductive rights, including contraception, morning-after pills, and in-vitro fertilization.

Justice Thomas explicitly writes that the Court should reconsider cases establishing other fundamental human rights, including same-sex marriage.
Other rights could be on the chopping block.

Why It’s Protected in Nevada: For more than 30 years, Nevada has protected abortion rights prior to 24 weeks.

In a 1990 initiative, voters chose to constitutionally protect the right to abortion.

This can only be struck down through a majority vote by Nevadans.
Resources: • Learn about your rights and available resources at Reproductiverights.gov • Find a Verified Abortion Provider • Learn more about Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and Disclosures of Information Guidance Relating to Reproductive Health Care • Take steps to safeguard reproductive health information on your smartphone