Why Black women are especially underserved when it comes to birth control access , by Claretta Bellamy, NBC news The Supreme Court’s ruling to gut nationwide rights to abortion last week has highlighted the importance of access to birth control, which already proves difficult for many women of color due to discrimination, stigma and systemic … Read more
Woman’s 500-mile trek to an Illinois abortion clinic may be start of a wave to come , By Safia Samee Ali, NBC news One of the first patients to arrive at the clinic the day it resumed abortion procedures after the reversal of Roe v. Wade was a woman who had just driven nine hours … Read more
Covid spiked the maternal death rate in U.S. Roe’s fall will make it even worse. , by Elizabeth Chuck, NBC news U.S. maternal mortality rates are certain to rise as more states restrict abortion following the fall of Roe v. Wade, experts said, a sobering prediction as new statistics show the Covid pandemic’s already outsize … Read more
In coming weeks, Georgia will probably ban most abortions after six weeks. For students like Bennett pursuing their medical education in states poised to ban abortion services, the ruling impacts not just the training they will receive, it leaves them grappling with the personal, moral and practical challenges of a common (and sometimes, life-saving) … Read more
Pregnant women face increasingly dangerous risks as doctors flee punitive US states, By Jessica Glenza, The Guardian Louisiana is fighting to become a leader in the race to criminalize doctors who allegedly provide abortions, since the US supreme court ended federal abortion protections. In doing so, the state may also become an example of how … Read more
What the end of Roe means for cancer patients like me, By Jamie Abrams on NBCnews After years of teaching Roe v. Wade as a family law professor, I experienced the stunningly painful irony of reading the leaked Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on the day I was diagnosed with … Read more
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