Kelly Baden (Vice President for Public Policy), explains how the Dobbs decision overturned 50 years of constitutional abortion rights, creating ongoing legal and legislative chaos as opponents push toward a nationwide abortion ban.
Guttmacher's Kelly Baden on post-Roe attacks by abortion opponents
Transcript: Here in the US, abortion remains at the forefront. Of course, we weren't hoping it would happen due to the overturning of 50 years of our constitutional right to abortion with the Dobbs decision two years ago. Again, the overturning of the overturning So Roe v. Wade did solve any questions around abortion policy in this country. Right? Instead, it actually unearthed an entirely new set of chaos and confusion and legal and policy questions and the fact that we so quickly had not one, but two more cases before the Supreme Court related to abortion, not to mention all of the policy work that you'll hear about and legislation that's been happening this question is not over and that our opponents and opponents of abortion were not going to stop with overturning Roe v. Wade. So it really is about seeing at this point, unfortunately, how much farther they will try to go and what components of the legal, legislative and other systems they will use to try to reach their end goal of banning abortion for everyone, in any state, for any reason.