“Even after the leak, I held onto a shred of hope that the court would not be as cruel—that [it] just had to understand the impact that this would have on people seeking access to [reproductive] care,' Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said.
the case that put Roe in its crosshairs. And recharged with the unprecedented leak of a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in early May, indicating Roe was all but deceased.
“I thought I had prepared myself emotionally and just was devastated, to be honest,” she told me on Saturday. “Even after the leak, I held onto a shred of hope that the court would not be as cruel—that [it] just had to understand the impact that this would have on people seeking access to [reproductive] care. Together in the room when the ruling came in, the emotional toll while we pivot into the fight [was] palpable.
McGill Johnson vows the organization’s work will continue. “Abortion will be provided where it is legal in the states where we can and in the other states, we will double down, particularly now, on contraception and birth control, education and mobilizing so people understand the impact.” Until recently, I didn’t know this: Abortions represent just 4% of services provided to 2.4 million people in all 50 states by Planned Parenthood. I didn’t know that until reading it recently in
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