Experts have warned that restricted abortion access has major career and financial consequences for women, such as widening the wage gap for working mothers, and making it harder for women to pursue higher education.
For Kristi Bradford, the immediate cost was a $300,000 paycheck.
Bradford, 32, turned down a $300,000 job based in Oklahoma out of concern for her health. She has endometriosis, a painful chronic condition she manages by undergoing a dilation and curettage, or D&C, the same procedure used in many surgical abortions.
Once Roe was overturned, Oklahoma enacted its trigger law banning almost all abortions. The uncertainty surrounding the state's restrictive care convinced Bradford to pull out of the job altogether.
"It's distressing that the Supreme Court has put women in the position of choosing between their life and their economic well-being," Bradford told CNBC Make It's Jennifer Liu in August. But she doesn't regret her decision, "I'd rather have my life than millions of dollars."
For Sam Goldstein, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Dobbs decision meant she had to pull her application to her dream graduate program.
She had planned on remaining in Wisconsin after graduation to pursue a master's degree in public policy before Roe was overturned.
But in June, when a near-total abortion ban from the 1800s went into effect in Wisconsin after the court's ruling, those plans "went out the window," Goldstein told me last month.
Now, she's planning on moving to Washington, D.C., after graduation and applying for programs there instead.
"I'm a full-blown Wisconsin resident — I pay taxes, I vote here, I work here and I love my school," she said. "But the minute Roe was overturned, I felt like I became a second-class citizen overnight."
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