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On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court revoked the right to abortion in the landmark Dobbs v Jackson decision. This decision on the legal status of abortion is deeply embedded in the history of structural racism and White supremacy in the United States. In this issue of AJPH, Riley et al.(p. 1662) compellingly describe how antiabortion policies are rooted in and uphold White supremacy, and they call for public health researchers to address abortion criminalization in the context of advancements in the measurement of structural racism.

Three critical areas must be considered for the development of sound measures of abortion criminalization as a form of structural racism. First, structural racism affects racialized people’s reproductive lives even before unwanted pregnancy and abortion occur. Inequities in unwanted pregnancy do not exist in a vacuum; compounding racism in health education, health care access …