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Reproductive Justice and Adolescents in a Post-Roe United States
Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent GynecologyVol. 35Issue 6p607–608Published in issue: December, 2022Cited in Scopus: 0The US Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson reversed nearly 50 years of legal precedent following the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. This decision was an assault on reproductive justice that disproportionately impacts adolescents and young adults. The decision allowed states to enact laws curtailing induced abortions; in some states trigger laws had been enacted prior to the overturn of Roe v. Wade leading to an almost immediate ban on abortions. Some of these laws have been enjoined from enforcement, but others have gone into effect.
