‘This should concern us all,’ says AFSC

'The American Friends Service Committee has spoken out against the US supreme court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v Wade ruling which made abortion legal in the US in 1973.'

by Rebecca Hardy 1st July 2022

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has spoken out against the US supreme court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v Wade ruling which made abortion legal in the US in 1973. Saying that the new ruling ‘should concern us all’, the AFSC put out a statement declaring that it ‘unequivocally supports reproductive freedom’. It said: ‘The impact of this decision will disproportionately affect low-income, Black and Brown women and people who can become pregnant, migrants, and survivors of sexual violence and further expose them to inhumane, unsafe, and degrading treatment.’