A year after Roe’s fall, fears of US abortion bans become reality

The Women’s March in Los Angeles in April. The Dobbs decision has had a seismic impact on reproductive rights. Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

The day the constitutional right to abortion ended in the US, Americans faced an unusual moment of regression. The current generation now has fewer constitutional rights than their parents and their grandparents.

What has happened since then has been almost unfathomable.