Supreme Court abortion ruling updates: WH warns of ‘nightmare scenarios’

Abortion rights groups responded to the Supreme Court decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade.

"Today, the Supreme Court eviscerated the last shreds of our national right to abortion and blatantly turned its back on our dignity," said Morgan Hopkins, interim executive director for campaigns and strategies at All* Above All, in a statement.

She added, "The ripple effects will be felt far and wide, in every state across the country. And to be clear -- today’s decision is the result of a decades-long scheme to dismantle access to abortion care."

Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, associate professor of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, said the decision "will fall hardest on women of color and low-income people, who already experience extreme health disparities under a racist health care system."

Debasri Ghosh, the managing Director at the National Network of Abortion Funds, said the decision was expected but nonetheless "infuriating."

"The harm of abortion restrictions will now fall even harder on Black, Indigenous and people of color, people already excluded from our health care by systemic racism and economic injustice," she added.

Former first ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton reacted to the Supreme Court decision, both condemning it.

Obama, in her statement, said repeatedly that she is "heartbroken," including "for people around this country who just lost the fundamental right to make informed decisions about their own bodies."

Clinton, who also served as secretary of state, said, "Today's Supreme Court opinion will live in infamy as a step backward for women's rights and human rights."

"This horrifying decision will have devastating consequences," Obama wrote in her full statement.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned Republicans in response to the Supreme Court decision, saying in a statement, "Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party and their supermajority on the Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers."

Pelosi further said there would be more restrictions on reproductive health care, claiming, "Republicans want to arrest doctors for offering reproductive care and women for terminating a pregnancy. GOP extremists are even threatening to criminalize contraception, as well as in-vitro fertilization and post-miscarriage care."

She called the ruling "outrageous and heart-wrenching."

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Pelosi on Supreme Court abortion ruling: ‘The harm is endless’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned Republicans in response to the Supreme Court decision.

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Anti-abortion group March for Life praised the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, overturning federal protections for abortion.

"Today, the ability to determine whether and when to limit abortion was returned to the American people who have every right to enact laws like Mississippi's which protect mothers and unborn babies after 15 weeks," March for Life said in a statement.

The group called Roe v. Wade an "unpopular and extreme" abortion policy that had been imposed on the U.S. Polling shows 58% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

"We are so grateful to the countless pro-life people of goodwill who contributed and sacrificed to make today possible – including the millions of those who have marched for life over the years - and we recognize that this is just the beginning of our work to advance policies that protect life. We will continue to march until abortion is unthinkable because equality begins in the womb," March for Life said.