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Many Vermonters have pledged support for safe reproductive healthcare after the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Some have raised money to help fund access to safe abortion care in states where the ruling ended that right. Vermont photographer and musician Luke Awtry decided to schedule a vasectomy.

In a sense, what was one battleground has become 50, as advocates on both sides of the abortion issue race to put the issue before state constitutions. Half a dozen lawsuits are already in court.

56% of Americans disapproved of the decision in an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted after it was announced. A similar number say it was motivated by politics � not law.

As nearly two dozen states move to ban or restrict access to abortion following Friday's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights protests continued across the country.

Physicians must treat in line with patients' wishes and standards of care. Some medical ethicists say that abortion bans will force doctors to disregard these obligations in order to follow the law.

"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. The court's liberals warn that other rights could now be vulnerable.

Bodily autonomy is a principle of the disability rights movement. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, people with disabilities worry about how they will be disproportionately affected.

The Supreme Court ruling on Friday says it is limited to abortion, but President Biden and advocates say same-sex marriage and contraception cases could also be at risk.

This hour, University of Vermont professors of political science and history talk with host Mikaela Lefrak about the Supreme Court's decision that reverses Roe v. Wade.

A proposed amendment would enshrine reproductive health rights into the state constitution. Proposition 5 has been moving through the Legislature for several years, and will be on the ballot this November. Peter Teachout, a constitutional law scholar at Vermont Law School, advised state lawmakers while they drafted Prop 5.