Jennifer Pizer, Acting Chief Legal Officer, Lambda Legal, issued the following statement:
“The damage wrought by today’s ruling is incalculable. As we warned when a draft was leaked in May, people will die as a result of this ruling. More than half the states are already poised to ban or at least severely restrict abortion access, forcing patients to travel hundreds of miles out of state or to continue pregnancies against their will. Officials in some states have even suggested they will move to prevent pregnant people from leaving. We are seeing the threat of a radical, totalitarian state more and more resembling Gilead of The Handmaid’s Tale. If we want to retain any shred of gender equality and personal freedom, every one of us must raise our voices and engage.”