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Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, ending nationwide abortion rights and changing the abortion landscape all across the United States (Berg & Woods, 2023; Byron et al., 2022). Consequently, the policy change came with numerous unanticipated effects that are impacting the health and well-being of women with chronic health conditions (Heath, 2022; Louise, 2022). However, the effects of the policy change on women with chronic health conditions are not widely known, in part due to the recentness of the overturn and due to the limited research on women of reproductive age with chronic health conditions. Culturally competent and woman-centered interventions, such as listening circles could serve as a method for women with chronic health conditions to share experiences and process events, including the overturn of Roe v. Wade (Boyes-Watson, 2005; Indigenous Education, n.d). The benefits of listening circles are not widely researched, including the method's ability to increase one's sense of psychological empowerment and social connectedness. The current study begins to address the potential benefits of listening circles for women with chronic health conditions as well as understand the unanticipated effects of the overturn by analyzing the dialogue from 33 participants who participated in listening circles. Using a reflexive thematic analysis data analysis method, four overarching themes were generated, including how the policy change has compromised access to reproductive healthcare, caused additional psychological distress, decreased agency, and autonomy, and exacerbated health inequities. When compared, the results from the study's pre and post-test survey data indicated that listening circles do increase one's feeling of psychological empowerment and social connectedness. However, the findings are only generalizable to low-income economically marginalized women who reside in the South Atlantic region of the U.S. Despite limitations, the key implications of these findings add to the growing literature and research on listening circles, filling the gap in research on listening circles as a health intervention while providing crucial information that can impact and shape future research and policy.

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