Not to mention the criminalization of healthcare providers for addressing the medical needs of their patients. It would be wrong and shortsighted to think this only involves women’s bodies and lives it is much more far-ranging than that and has the potential to intrude on the individual lives, families, and relationships of all persons. “As such, the decision further throws the jurisprudence of privacy, liberty, and autonomy into jeopardy as constitutionally protected rights. This will especially affect women who are marginalized not just because of gender, but also race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, and poor economic status,” said Johnson. Women’s bodily integrity and autonomy will be upended and their healthcare and reproductive decisions even criminalized if this indeed becomes the Court’s final decision. “My opinion is that the implications and ramifications of overturning Roe are serious and dangerous to women’s lives.
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