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It's a free course decision to end constitutional protections for abortion rights, overturned decades

of precedent, and defied the majority of American people who supported Roe vs. Wade.

Activists who have been ringing the alarm bells for years about intrusions on reproductive

rights, a warning that this decision will cost women their freedom.

In some cases, their lives and marginalized women of color are likely to pay the highest

price.

More on African Americans and abortion rights coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson,

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The loss of abortion rights has created a national and international upward, a solid majority

of Americans favor keeping abortion a safe legal option and a choice made between a patient

and doctor.

Still, the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs versus Jackson case has plunged millions

of women into legal and physical jeopardy with seven states banning virtually all abortions

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