After 14 US Republican-majority states immediately enacted strict abortion laws following the overturning of Roe v Wade, an underground network of women began helping people access now-illegal pregnancy terminations. DatelineSBS
In the Republican stronghold of Alabama, the reality of a post-Roe v Wade America has taken hold.
Home to 2.5 million women, Alabama is considered by many as the heart of America’s deep south but it’s the country’s fifth poorest state and has one of the nation’s highest infant mortality rates. “They had started medicating her in the morning, so she had to have her abortion that day. And it was about four o'clock in the afternoon when she was finished.
Ireland* is part of the new era of ‘Janes’ and is risking everything to subvert this state’s abortion ban.
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