Mayor Adams, City Health Leaders Mark Two Years Since Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade

NEW YORK  – New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan, and NYC Health + Hospitals (NYC H+H) President and CEO Mitchell Katz, MD today marked two years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to effectively overturn Roe v. Wade after almost 50 years of precedent and strip Americans of their right to access safe, legal abortions. Since that decision, New York City has scaled up access to reproductive health care across city facilities to ensure that people who need reproductive care are still able to receive it. 

“Today marks two years since the Supreme Court threw out decades of precedent, overruled the majority of Americans, and imperiled the health of women everywhere,” said Mayor Adams. “While our entire city was devastated by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we were not deterred. Our administration signed six bills into law to protect reproductive rights in our city — providing free abortion medication at our local sexual health clinics, establishing telehealth abortion services to connect people with reproductive care, and more. Access to safe, legal abortion care is the cornerstone of public health and will always be available in New York City for anyone who needs it.”

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Source: The Office of the Mayor