In the United States, uteruses are increasingly more regulated than guns. This must change if we are to avoid a repeat of horrific mass shootings like those in Highland Park, Illinois; Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York, and dozens of other cities and towns in the last few months alone. And the future doesn’t have to be one where we’re forced to have children because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that pushed abortion rights back at least 50 years.
With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion rights are now in the hands of state legislators. In Alabama, where I live, a 2019 trigger law went into effect, making it a crime for an abortion to be performed at any stage of pregnancy unless an individual’s life is threatened or there is a lethal fetal anomaly.
Alabama is one of nine states where abortion is illegal in most cases. There are four states that will have bans going into effect soon and eight states that currently have bans with injunctions blocking them from being implemented.
