LGBTQ+ Groups Voice Outrage Over Dobbs Ruling Overturning Roe
Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and revoking the constitutional right to abortion. This means many states will ban the procedure, with grave implications for LGBTQ+ people among others, and that the right wing will target other hard-won rights, such as marriage equality.“When the Supreme Court is willing to throw 50 years of precedent out the window, it proves that we are at an exceedingly dangerous, unprecedented moment,” said a statement from Human Rights Campaign Interim President Joni Madison. “The Court’s majority opinion does not reflect the will of our nation — two-thirds of whom support Roe v.
Wade — but instead fulfills an extreme, out of step, ideological agenda. And it shows that all of our rights are on the line right now, as state lawmakers will be further emboldened to test the limits of our hard-won civil rights.
Women are under attack, LGBTQ+ people are under attack, BIPOC people are under attack, and we are justifiably outraged. We cannot relent — we must fight back.” A fact sheet released by HRC shows that LGBTQ+ women who have been pregnant are more likely to have had unwanted or mistimed pregnancies than heterosexual women and are more likely to need abortion services as well.
