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Earlier this month, a draft majority opinion for a pending Supreme Court case was leaked

by Politico.

The case accord is considering is Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization.

It deals with the Mississippi law that shortened the window for abortion from 20 weeks to 15.

In other words, this would end the Roe v Wade and federal abortion protection as we've known

it for nearly 50 years.

If Roe is overturned, decisions about regulating abortions would fall to individual states,

including states with so-called trigger laws, laws that would go into effect soon after

the Supreme Court decision and would severely restrict most abortions, establishing near

total bans or bans after six weeks of gestation.

And the earliest a lot of people know their pregnant is around four weeks.

You can be an abortion, people will slow abortions that is important to know that people will

be denied care and that that will put their health at risk.

Liza Fuentes is a senior research scientist at the Gootmacher Institute, a research organization

that focuses on sexual and reproductive health and supports abortion rights.

As a researcher, Liza says access to a safe abortion is healthcare and protecting that

access is protecting public health.

Abortal health is a broader practice that ensures the health of communities.

So what goes into public health isn't just collecting data and looking at risk factors,

but partnering with communities and looking at broader priorities in communities to promote

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