Before Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion laws in the U.S. were restrictive and varied by state forcing many women to seek out unsafe, illegal procedures that led to injury, death, or criminal charges. Abortion access also depended on wealth, race, and geography, with privileged women able to travel or find sympathetic doctors, while others faced dangerous back-alley options. Roe changed that by recognizing the right to privacy that included the right to choose an abortion, legalizing it nationwide. The ruling marked a victory for women's rights.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 ended nearly 50 years of federal protection for abortion rights in the U.S. 
The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion, leaving regulation up to individual states. As a result, many states enacted bans or severe restrictions, disproportionately impacting low-income people, people of color, and those in rural areas once again. We cannot allow this obvious attack on women's rights to go unchallenged; the fact that it disproportionally affects marginalized women and jeopardizes all women's health and safety is a devastating human rights infringement that must be corrected.