Criminalization of pregnancy has already been happening to the poor and women of color

McMahon studies abortion access and she says while women will certainly die because of the Supreme Court's decision, this idea of women dying from back alley abortions is stuck in the past. "I understand why people go to that talking point," she says. "But that's just not where the evidence points."

Medicine has advanced over the past fifty years. Now there are self-managed abortions — known as SMAs — pills people can take to safely terminate a pregnancy from home.

But America's prison and policing system has also grown, McMahon says. Fifty years ago we didn't have our current culture of mass incarceration.

"We're gonna see more people being criminalized, more people being arrested and more people being incarcerated."

"I think a lot of people's first reaction was to pull out the coat hanger imagery," McMahon says about the ending of Roe.

But a more accurate symbol might be prison bars.