UN official on Roe v Wade: reversal would 'give legitimacy to growing anti-women's rights'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% :"They are part of the bigger global issue, where you have anti-abortion movements growing but also anti-abortion legislation being implemented more widely across the world," Mofokeng said.
54% : It also became a beacon for the global feminist movement, which over the next five decades helped liberalize abortion laws across dozens of countries, including most recently in Latin America, and enshrine the right to abortion in international human rights law.
49% : The right to abortion speaks to who owns women's bodies in society and, "who fully can decide - and benefit from that bodily autonomy".
47% : The right to abortion, "speaks directly to women and girls, who are often in many societies not seen as people", Mofokeng said in an interview with the Guardian.
38% : Considering access to abortion as a human right helps people see, "why then the overturning would be catastrophic to those very principles of human rights".
37% : "People who are anti-women's rights and anti-equality see abortion as a low hanging fruit."
35% : Although outlawing abortion across more than half of states may violate UN treaties to which the US is party, including the convention against torture, it is unlikely the UN could hold the US accountable.
23% : If the court were to end protections for abortion, at least 26 US states would be certain or likely to outlaw abortion, forcing women to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic, self-manage abortions with medication and heighten the risk of prosecution, abuse and violence for both women and doctors.

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