We Deserve So Much Better Than 'Restore Roe'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "Having a federal protection for abortion in this country was absolutely important for our communities," Monica Raye Simpson, executive director of Atlanta-based reproductive justice organization SisterSong, told Jezebel.
53% : The president of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson, wrote in a Friday op-ed that she was "letting go of Roe" because she was "betting on better" for future generations.
52% : Bertram Roberts said it's also important to focus on state-level efforts to restore and expand access to abortion.
47% : The solution includes progressive states passing universal health care laws that cover abortion.
45% : Either you support pregnant people and you think abortion is health care or you don't."Because Roe gave states such immense power to regulate and legislate the procedure, many advocates call it the original abortion compromise -- and that's why they urge the movement to fight for people's full autonomy this time around.
44% : Abortion was rendered a right in name only.
44% :More broadly, Moayedi said, "Abortion is a human right.
44% : When Roe gave power to doctors, it established the rule of thumb that abortion should be a decision "between a woman and her doctor."
42% : "There's so much other work I would love to be doing rather than providing diapers to people and funding for abortion," Bertram Roberts told Jezebel.
41% : We should be treating abortion not as some kind of a political football, but as a fundamental human right.
38% : One way they did so was by banning delivery methods of abortion, including telemedicine appointments for abortion pills.
38% : "If you have certain values about abortion -- that abortion is health care, that pregnant people are people, and that we should have bans off our bodies -- if all of those slogans include an imaginary viability line in your head, they are not values, they are slogans," Christensen said.
36% : That means that WHPA not only retains the harmful fetal viability threshold, it also doesn't require insurance companies to cover abortion, nor does it explicitly protect people who self-manage their abortions with pills from arrest and criminalization.
35% :Roe was easily undermined by states that wanted to ban abortion earlier than viability, and it made it nearly impossible for people to access necessary later abortions, which has harmed countless.
35% : "No one likes abortion."
34% : When insurance doesn't cover abortion, "all of that trickles down," said Ghazaleh Moayedi, an OB/GYN who used to provide abortions in Texas and Oklahoma, two states that banned nearly all abortion while Roe was still on the books.
34% : Roe focused only on abortion, and when groups viewed it as a single issue not connected to other fights, they lost.
32% : SisterSong and others asked Planned Parenthood to fight both measures, but it chose to focus only on the one directly related to abortion.

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