THE OVERTURNING OF ROE VS WADE JULIET ROUND

THE OVERTURNING OF ROE VS WADE

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade puts a huge level of financial pressure on women who without this overturn would not be put under this level of pressures. The issues with state controlling the abortion laws have long term and short-term impacts. The short-term impacts have immediate costs such as travelling to a state that can provide an abortion safely and legally and obviously the cost of an abortion, which is medical treatment, where the average cost in America for a first trimester abortion $650 – $750. Second trimester abortions run an average of $1,200. Late term abortions can be even more expensive, at $3,000 or more. Which is already a huge financial cost ignoring the cost of travel for a safe abortion where you are not under legal risk and the potential legal costs if women end up having to take the illegal abortion route in their own state which may also include any costs of medication needed due to them being forced into an unsafe medical procedure.

There are huge long-term impacts of this overturning; the lack of funding for women and families throughout pregnancy and labour, the huge expenses are a major factor as to why keeping abortion legal is so critical in America. By forcing women to go through pregnancies they are not financially stable for you risk huge levels of women and families going through bankruptcy as the social structure is not there in many states to offer support.

There will be a decrease in the education of women as many will no longer be in school due having to work lower paid jobs in order to provide for a child and themselves putting pressures on childcare structures and increasing the gender pay gap. The gender pay gap will be increased as jobs with larger salaries need higher/further levels of education but with women needing to work to avoid becoming bankrupt or in poverty they cannot financially support their families or themselves through further education meaning many end up in a cycle that they cannot escape of being poorly paid.

Financial inequality will be increased as women who are living in the cycle of poverty are then giving birth to a child, they cannot support so then cannot escape the financial pressures which either pushes women who have escaped poverty back into poverty or keeps women in higher levels of poverty, and therefor increases the fact that the poorer will keep getting poorer. A lot of women will be forced into the route of adoption or fostering putting huge pressures on an already underfunded aspect in the US. Fostering and Adoptions could lead to potential mental health risks in young children being forced into fostering/adoption and decreasing the educational potential of a grouping of young children creating a larger grouping of disadvantaged people in the future. As well as this Women’s mental health could see an increase due to going through the trauma of giving up a child due to the costs of providing for them potentially causing them to leave various jobs and leaving gaps in certain areas and adding pressures on mental health care that with abortion would not be under such levels of demand.