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MEMO: Three Years After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned, America is Less Safe, Less Healthy, and Less Free
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Reproductive Freedom for All
RE: Three Years After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned, America is Less Safe, Less Healthy, and Less Free
DATE: June 13, 2025
It only took Trump one term to appoint the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade—but the reproductive health care crisis they unleashed will have lifetime consequences. Restrictive bans and high out-of-pocket costs have made abortion care impossible to access in some regions of the country. Meanwhile, the chaos and confusion of abortion bans have led to the preventable deaths of pregnant women after hospitals delayed or denied emergency care. Yet Trump and Republicans continue to push policies designed to eliminate reproductive health care, including abortion, contraception, and IVF.
As you plan your coverage of the third year marking the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, please reference the information and statistics in our fact sheet about the current state of abortion rights in America and the summarized version below.
FACT: Three years after the MAGA Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, America is less safe, less healthy, and less free.
LESS SAFE
- Women living in states that banned abortion are nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after giving birth, compared to women who live in states where abortion is legal and accessible.
- After Roe was overturned, infant deaths were 5.6% higher than they would have been in 14 states with abortion bans had the bans not been enacted.
- Countless lives have been lost because of abortion bans, including the preventable deaths of Josseli Barnica in Texas, and Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller in Georgia.
LESS HEALTHY
- The country is facing a shortage of family planning doctors, and abortion bans are making the crisis worse. As states pass laws banning and restricting standard reproductive health care, providers are forced to choose between shutting down their practice, relocating their clinics, or exiting the field altogether.
- In several states, including Texas, Georgia, and Idaho, reproductive health care providers are leaving the state because of criminal penalties imposed on providers.
- Post-Roe attacks on abortion have also limited access to other reproductive health care, like contraception and fertility treatments. Alabama’s anti-abortion ruling led to the state’s largest hospital pausing IVF treatments. As anti-abortion laws have proliferated, access to birth control has also decreased.
LESS FREE
- State legislatures have seen an influx of bills that seek to give legal rights to fetuses and embryos. Ten states—Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas—have considered legislation that would classify abortion as murder, opening the door for providers and patients to face extreme penalties like homicide charges. Many of these states already have some of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country.
- Before Roe was overturned, nearly one in ten people who obtained an abortion had to travel across state lines. The latest data shows that more than twice as many people are now traveling for abortion care, with approximately one in five abortion patients traveling out of state for abortion care.
- For people in Southern states where lawmakers have passed abortion bans, abortion care can be up to 700 miles away.
For more statistics and information, view the full fact sheet as a pdf here.
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