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A woman's right to reproductive and bodily autonomy: Introduction

     In an interview with multiple experts, Khiara M. Bridges, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley, stated the following concerning women’s constitutional guarantee that their rights will be protected: "Because women were not part of the body politic, the rights that are important to people who can get pregnant are just not contemplated by the Constitution. The drafters of the Constitution could care less about what women's concerns were, what they needed in order to be fully human in society." (Counts, 2022, p. 17) The conversation that Ms. Bridges and other experts in the field are concerned with stems from a leaked decision to overturn the 1973 court decision of Roe versus Wade, a decision that argued the constitutionality of a women’s right to privacy to terminate or abort her pregnancy in the first and second trimesters (Baker et al., 2020; Roe v. Wade, 1973). This decision sparked the controversy that separated the nation into adopting a pro-ch