Abortion is also about racial justice, experts and advocates say

Abortion rights demonstrators chant during a protest outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

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If you’re going to talk about the intersection of abortion and race, it’s probably a good thing to start with the 14th amendment, says Melissa Murray, a legal scholar and law professor at New York University.

It is, after all, the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court interpreted to give women bodily autonomy — the privacy and liberty to make decisions about their own bodies.

But the 14th amendment wasn’t in the “original” draft of the U.S. Constitution.