The reality is that even with Roe in place, millions of women already face incredible obstacles intended to prevent them from obtaining the abortion care they need. These are multilayered barriers to access, at the state and federal levels. The women affected by these laws are women you know. They’re mothers, sisters, friends and colleagues. They’re women like Dr. Valerie Peterson, who lived in Texas. She needed an abortion at 16 weeks after she learned her unborn son was diagnosed with a lethal fetal anomaly and would not survive. Her only options were to wait to miscarry or end the pregnancy. Dr. Peterson had just learned the sex of her baby, and was excited for her two daughters to have a younger brother. Losing the pregnancy was a traumatic event on its own, and waiting would be too excruciating to bear.