Attacks on access to abortion care not only exacerbate racial inequities, but they are also historically rooted in the fallacy of white supremacy and centuries of systemic oppression designed to control black peopleβs reproduction. Now that many american states have made abortion illegal, we can expect to see spiking rates of unsafe abortion. Abortion rights demonstrators chant during a protest outside the supreme court on tuesday
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If you're going to talk about the intersection of abortion and race, it's probably a good thing to.
Special correspondent sarah varney traveled to tennessee to report on the disproportionate impact abortion bans are having on black women
It's part of our series, race matters. In this retrospective cohort study, we collected texas state statistics on number of abortions, abortions. The threat to abortion access has underscored the economic hardships and maternal health crisis that black and brown women face. βwe think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion.β
The rate of unsafe abortions is nearly 45 times higher in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws than in countries where abortion is legal
