The End of Roe v. Wade?

OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas

​​With the biggest threat to abortion rights in fifty years reaching the Supreme Court this week, in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—which centers around Mississippi’s fifteen-week abortion ban—Rebecca sat down with two of The Century Foundation’s top experts on reproductive rights and health: Dr. Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform and senior fellow at TCF, and Anna Bernstein, a health care policy fellow at TCF. They unpack what overturning Roe v. Wade would mean for women and people who can become pregnant in the United States; why reproductive justice is critical to economic justice and gender equality; and why low-income folks and people of color are likely to face the most devastating consequences. But first, Rebecca sat down with Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, author of The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America, and Off-Kilter’s resident longtime court-watcher, for a recap of this week’s oral argument in Dobbs.

For more:

• Read SCOTUSblog’s explainer on what’s at stake in Dobbs: “Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades”
• Check out “5 Things to Know about Abortion Access as Supreme Court Hears Dobbs v. JWHO” by Jamila Taylor and Anna Bernstein
• And here’s a powerful read from the National Women’s Law Center’s Fatima Goss Graves for SCOTUSblog: “Our equality and liberty are on the line”