But as we saw last month, when the court declined to protect women from what Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "grave and irreparable harm," neither precedent nor women's bodily autonomy matter to this court. Roe is unlikely to survive continued attacks.
In Monday's hearings, the justices appeared skeptical of the Texas law, but it does not mean women are in the clear. On Dec. 1, the court is scheduled to hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which asks the justices to overrule Roe. In other words, the court could throw out the Texas law but still overturn Roe later.
My great-grandmother died from a botched abortion. With Roe possibly doomed at the Supreme Court, prepare to see more women and girls suffer painful deaths as they seek out illegal abortions.
It was 1936 when my great-grandmother, Joyce Hubbard, found out she was pregnant again. She was 36.
Before the 1929 stock market crash, the Hubbard-Millar family from Clinton, Missouri, had been well-off cattle ranchers. But seven years later, they could barely feed their four kids and were homeless. Joyce decided to have an abortion, which was illegal at the time.
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