A Q&A with NCLR’s Federal Policy Director in a Post-Roe America
nclrights.orgOn June 26, 2022, the Friday of Pride weekend for many major cities, the United States Supreme Court announced the reversal of Roe v.
Wade with their decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. We wanted to catch up with our Federal Policy Director Juliana S. Gonen to find out more about what this means for the LGBTQ community and our families – and what NCLR is doing to ensure reproductive justice for everyone going forward. What was your initial reaction when then the official Dobbs decision came out? While this sounds contradictory, I was both shocked and not at all surprised.
As soon as the Supreme Court decided last year to accept the case from Mississippi, it was clear that the right to abortion was in grave danger.
And of course, the leak of the majority opinion in May preliminarily confirmed those fears. But despite being “ready,” it was still deeply unnerving to read the final decision and the utter lack of appreciation by the majority of the Court for the harm it was about to unleash upon so many people.
