For voters connected to countries that have long had strong restrictions on abortion, she said, the long-term impact on women’s safety and economic opportunity is not new. “They know it’s directly linked to violence against women. It’s directly linked to high levels of maternal mortality,” she added. Latin America has some of the highest rates … Read more
Kamala Harris invokes ‘fight for our freedom’ as Florida six-week abortion ban takes effect “This is a fight for freedom – the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body and not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do,” said Harris, who has become the Biden campaign’s foremost messenger on abortion. … Read more
Already, birth rates in states that banned or restricted access to abortion have increased since the Dobbs ruling. State-level abortion bans will undoubtedly prove fatal for some people, particularly Black people and children, who are more likely to die before, during and after childbirth than White women and children. Read more at 19th News
Justice group calls some charges in past 20 years ‘illegitimate uses of state power’ and says over 40% of cases involved people of color Read more at The Guardian
Since that decision – Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – more than 1,500 state legislators, who are overwhelmingly white men, have voted for full or partial abortion bans. Read more at The Conversation
A high-end hotel in the liberal Texan enclave of Austin is playing host to a conference whose theme is boosting global birth rates, but which will in fact feature racist and eugenicist internet personalities and far-right media figures. Read more at The Guardian
Black women comprise a disproportionate percentage – 39% – of abortion patients in the United States, and many live in communities with limited access to health services, including family planning clinics and pharmacies. They also disproportionately experience higher rates of other reproductive health conditions, such as infant mortality and pregnancy-related complications and deaths. Read more … Read more
Sussman says the door swings both ways. “I anticipate that prosecutors will sweep in anyone who is experiencing a pregnancy loss that they deem ‘suspicious,’” Sussman says. Suspicious. That was the rationale used to target the women treated at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1989. Black women are twice as likely to have … Read more
