Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson: One Texas Law's Procedural Peculiarities and its Monolithic Threat to Abortion Access.

Abstract

WholeWoman’sHealthv. Jackson:OneTexasLaw’s Procedural Peculiarities and its Monolithic Threat to Abortion Access — Abortion is a medically recognized1 and legally sanctioned2 form of health care in the United States. And abortion occupies a heavily trafficked sector of the U.S. health care industry: an estimated twenty-five percent of American women3 will obtain an abortion by the end of their childbearing years.4 Abortion rates trail not far behind the rates of two other extraordinarily common surgeries performed on Americans with uteruses: Caesarean sections (which occur in around thirtythree percent of birthing people)5 and hysterectomies (which have occurred in around thirty percent of all uterus-bearing people aged fifty or older).6