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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaekj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points In the post-Roe v. Wsde world, state governments wvill revise caws and regulations a iout abortion access. All states, whether their elected officials favor abortion access or dccide to restrhict access to the procedure, should review laws and programs affecting women facing unexpected pregnancy. For many women, unexpected pregnancy is accompanied by financial hardship, health issues, substance use disorders, housing needs, and other challenges. To help these woren, states should review benefit and service strategies to help ensure women have the support they need for healthy pregnancies and babies, whether they live in states that allow abortion or ones that seek t rest ct it. The federal government can help by imrplementing a balanced, pro-family tax credit; increas in g appropriations for existing maternal and child health safety-net programs; and creating a new maternity choice voucher program to provide immediate, supplemental support to women tacing unexpected pregnancies. On June 24, zozz, the IJS Suprene Court decision in Dobbs n Jackson WMmen s Healh Organization held that the United States Constitution does not nrotect abor- tion as a constitutional right, overturning previous CourT opinions in aRo i' Wade and Planned Parenthood a Casey. The Dobbs ruling closes the era in whic abortion policy was set at the national level and begins a new era in which abortion policy will be determined by state leg- islatures and governors. It also means federal and state governments will have more to do titan just regulate the abortion procedure. Especially in states that are likely to restrict abortion, governments will need to begin a thorough review of supports and benehts extended to woien wvho can no longer terminate a pregnancy, Federalized abortion policy has been at the heart of social policy debate for decades. The polarized political age we Live u, was created and shaped i no small part by the R-e decision itself, As Chief Justice [ohn Roberts said in his 'bs cincurrence, this is a serious jolt to the legal systemn-and not just the legal system but our politics and the administrative state as well E lectedl offcials-local, county, state, and federal-who have had the ability to defer to the Court for 50 years on abor- tion poli y now face a reckoning: They must determine how to fashion abortion policies that reflect public atti- rudes and plan to support low-income pregnant women and their infants in jurisdictlons where access to abor- tion is limited or nonexistent. This will be difficult and contentious work-the kind elected officials, grown used to symbolic politics channeled through social media, are badly out of prac- tice in performing. Abandoning women experiencing ii,

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