This past week has been hard. At first, I had to turn off the news app on my phone to avoid headlines about Roe v Wade being overturned. I hate the fact that I feel like I have to avoid such a sensitive yet important topic. The video we watched this week really helped me understand that even when abortion is legal people still struggle so much to get the funds for these services. It must be such a difficult job to continuously ask people if there’s any way that they can make up more money in such a short time period- or not be able to offer them assistance at all. I felt the same frustration reading the articles Prof Waychoff provided. The fact that no draft has ever been disclosed publicly is alarming, that the supreme court works under such discretion that the public has no say until it is finalized… Of course the basis of this decision is rooted in the US’s historical “traditions” in controlling womens bodies and forcing them to bear children under any condition. It is barely a sigh of relief for certain states to legally allow abortion procedures, because it doesn’t account for however many states choosing to take away a womens right to her reproductive decisions. Once I moved onto the second article about Aids Access and how Ms. Gompert makes it her number one goal to provide contraceptives, I had a genuine sigh of relief. She empowers me to believe that there is a sliver of legal hope in this amazing company shes created.