Full Interview: One Year After Dobbs, GOP Bans Have Largely Failed, Support for Abortion on the Rise

Saturday marked the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision that saw the conservative majority overturn Roe v. Wade and end the federal right to abortion. Abortion rights activists rallied in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere across the country to demand access to reproductive healthcare. In the year since the ruling, more than a dozen states have passed new abortion bans, and about 25 million women of childbearing age now live under tighter restrictions than before the court intervened. However, thanks to grassroots organizing efforts and underground abortion networks, "Abortions are still happening in every state in the country every day," says Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent for The Nation. Littlefield describes how abortion activists are working to continue providing care, as well as what to expect from the anti-abortion movement as it seeks to further restrict reproductive rights.

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