Abortion Is Under Attack on a Statewide Level

This summer the Supreme Court will decide the fate of a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Most court observers expect the Supreme Court’s decision to undermine or even overturn Roe v. Wade.

As the country awaits the Court’s decision, the fight over abortion is heating up in the states.  Nebraska and Florida are preparing bills further restricting access to abortion. Some of the proposed bills are modeled after Texas’s controversial anti-abortion law, SB-8, which bans abortion after six weeks and allows people to sue doctors who provide them. 

For more on this, The Takeaway spoke with Elizabeth Nash, Principal Policy Associate for State Issues at the Guttmacher Institute. 

Then, The Takeaway speaks to Katie Woodruff, a public health social scientist at the University of California San Francisco, about how the news media covers abortion.