This thesis examines the potential consequences of the recent 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn the fifty-year precedent of Roe v. Wade by analyzing the past, present, and future of reproductive freedom in the United States. Dorothy Roberts’s important text, Killing the Black Body, and several films about abortion such as Happening, One Sings, The Other Doesn’t, The Janes, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always, are central to my study. These texts and films explore the lived experiences of diverse women who are profoundly affected by state and national abortion bans. My thesis centers these experiences in order to bring our attention to how losing bodily autonomy will impact the lives of pregnant people of all kinds after Dobbs.
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