Dec 3, 2021
With the biggest threat to abortion rights in fifty years reaching the Supreme Court this week, in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—which centers around Mississippi’s fifteen-week abortion ban—Rebecca sat down with two of The Century Foundation’s top experts on reproductive rights and health: Dr. Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform and senior fellow at TCF, and Anna Bernstein, a health care policy fellow at TCF. They unpack what overturning Roe v. Wade would mean for women and people who can become pregnant in the United States; why reproductive justice is critical to economic justice and gender equality; and why low-income folks and people of color are likely to face the most devastating consequences. But first, Rebecca sat down with Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, author of The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America, and Off-Kilter’s resident longtime court-watcher, for a recap of this week’s oral argument in Dobbs.
For more:
- Read SCOTUSblog’s explainer on what’s at stake in Dobbs: “Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades”
- Check out “5 Things to Know about Abortion Access as Supreme Court Hears Dobbs v. JWHO” by Jamila Taylor and Anna Bernstein
- And here’s a powerful read from the National Women’s Law Center’s Fatima Goss Graves for SCOTUSblog: “Our equality and liberty are on the line”