StrongHearts Native Helpline: Impacts of Roe v. Wade decision on Native American & Alaska Native women sexual violence victim-survivors

'[A] breach of trust responsibility and body sovereignty that goes back to colonization.'

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The June 24 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the constitutional right to an abortion will adversely impact Native American and Alaska Native victim-survivors of sexual violence in several ways. The ruling paves the way for national criminalization of abortion. A number of states, including Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North…