OPINION: US abortion case shows we cannot take reproductive rights for granted
under the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision inthreatens to expose American women in dozens of states to serious health risks and is a major rollback in their right to decisional autonomy.
Moreover, the reasoning of the majority of the Supreme Court cast a wide conservative net: it suggests that constitutional guarantees of liberty and equality in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution are to be understood in an extremely narrow and backward-looking way. In Australia, we are lucky that core reproductive rights are already protected by legislation, but the US experience reminds us that these protections cannot be taken for granted. Their endurance depends on ongoing electoral support, and who is elected to make decisions on these questions. It also depends on a politics where both parties agree that access to healthcare – including reproductive healthcare – is a fundamental right.
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