Warnings that ending Roe will cause increase in unsafe abortions

A leaked document from within the walls of the US Supreme Court revealed a potential fault line that threatens to upend the foundation upon which abortion rights in the country have rested on for nearly 50 years: a reversal of Roe v Wade.

The leaked draft opinion, as reported by Politico, includes a quote from Justice Samuel Alito where he calls the seminal Supreme Court ruling “egregiously wrong from the start.” Politico reported that alongside him, four other Republican-appointed justices voted in the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation to uphold a Mississippi law criminalising termination of a pregnancy after 15 weeks.

Though the decision has yet to be handed down in any official capacity, meaning abortion is still protected at the federal level, many began speculating on what kind of risks would be posed to a person seeking an abortion in a post-Roe world, with some turning back the pages in the history books to get a glimpse of what the future may hold.