Why do abortion “exceptions” rarely include mental health?

“It’s one stigma on top of another: abortion is stigmatized, mental health is stigmatized — and [if] you need an abortion for a mental health issue, you’re just adding stigma on stigma,” Sobel told Salon. “So it’s most challenging for people in that situation to access care, and as we’ve already said, most of the bans have no exception for mental health at all. But at some point, mental health becomes physical health, but the physical health exceptions aren’t clear either.”

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