GENEVA (2 June 2023)– Millions of women and girls across the United States have suffered an alarming deterioration in access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, following the US Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, UN experts* said today. As of January 2023, abortion has been banned in 14 States across the country, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organisation has reverberated throughout the entire legal and policy system, the experts said.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 02 June 2023. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
