By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN
Wed January 18, 2023
Women living in states that restrict or ban abortion face greater economic insecurity than those living in states where they have access, new research finds.
Since the nearly seven months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, half of all states – 26 in total – have implemented new abortion restrictions or all-out bans.
Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/economy/abortion-women-states-economy/index.html
I’ve studied what happens to people who are denied an abortion for an unwanted pregnancy. Here’s what I learned.
By DIANA GREENE FOSTER
06/08/2022
When I was in high school, I learned a secret my grandmother had kept for decades: She’d had an abortion. The story came out after she passed away and my grandfather announced that, at her request, in lieu of flowers donations should be made to Planned Parenthood. For me, as a naïve teenager, it was a surprise that someone so maternal and loving would have had an abortion. I had been taught – through TV shows, movies and books – that abortion was something that irresponsible people do to avoid childbearing. I am sure this is how many people still see abortion.
The story my grandfather told was that my grandmother became pregnant early in their marriage, during the Great Depression when she and my grandfather didn’t have the jobs, money and security to provide for a child. So she traveled from New York to Puerto Rico to get an illegal abortion. Later she went on to have three children: my dad, my aunt and my uncle.
How “pro-life” states are failing new parents and babies.
By Dylan Scott
May 12, 2022
Almost half the United States is ready to outlaw abortion, if given a green light by the Supreme Court, something it’s expected to do in the next few months. But many of those states are not willing to give new babies and their families the educational, medical, or financial support they need to lead a healthy life. That could leave tens of thousands of future children unnecessarily disadvantaged and living in poverty.
The precise effect on new births from the 22 states set to enact broad abortion bans if Roe v. Wade is overturned is impossible to predict. But public health experts like Diana Greene Foster — the lead researcher on the Turnaway Study, an enormous survey project that tracked the long-term effects of receiving or being denied an abortion — expect a meaningful increase in the number of women with an unwanted pregnancy who nevertheless give birth. Middlebury College economics professor Caitlin Knowles Myers anticipates as many as 75,000 people who want an abortion but can’t get one will end up giving birth in the first year after Roe is overturned.
Continued: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23057032/supreme-court-abortion-rights-roe-v-wade-state-aid
Paul Constant, Business Insider
Feb 26, 2022
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December for and against a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Justice Amy Coney Barrett seemed confused why lawyers arguing for legal abortion, as she put it, "focus on the ways in which forced parenting, forced motherhood, would hinder women's access to the workplace and to equal opportunities."
Justice Barrett asked the lawyers, "Why don't the safe-haven laws [in which any mother can give up her new baby to the state for adoption, no questions asked] take care of that problem?"
Black Information Network
December 30, 2021
Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court took up a case involving Mississippi’s abortion ban law. The case could overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that secured abortion rights for people across the US in 1973 –– a situation which reproductive justice advocates say will impact us all.
“Choices are being made for us before we can even make choices for ourselves,” Laurie Bertram Roberts, Co-Founder of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund and Alabama Reproductive Freedom Fund told the Black Information Network.
Continued: https://chicagodefender.com/what-the-fight-for-abortion-rights-means-to-all-of-us/
A landmark study of women seeking abortions shows the harms of being unable to end an unwanted pregnancy
By Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American
December 22, 2021
As the Supreme Court decides the future of abortion laws in the U.S., a key question to be considered is whether access to the procedure has positive or negative consequences for the people who get an abortion, and for society in general.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization concerns the constitutionality of a new Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case challenges the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, a precedent that protects abortion access before fetal viability—a point at around 24 weeks of gestation, when a fetus is considered able to survive outside the uterus.
Nov. 22, 2021
By Diana Greene Foster
New York Times
On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the court decides to uphold the Mississippi law — as it may well do — that would mean American abortion rights would no longer be protected up to the point of fetal viability, or about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Replacing this viability standard, which has been in place since 1992, with some lower threshold is sometimes framed as a necessary compromise between people who oppose abortion rights and those who support them. The suggestion is that Americans should relinquish the right to abortion in the second trimester to preserve access in the first, which is when about 90 percent of abortions take place.
Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-women-law.html
Anastasia Moloney, Reuters
Nov 09, 2021
U.S. firms look set to face increasing scrutiny over their stance on abortion rights and whether employee healthcare plans are in step with social responsibility statements as abortion curbs are challenged in court, researchers and executives say.
A near-total ban on abortion in Texas and new restrictions on the procedure in other Republican-led states have prompted dozens of firms to wade into the highly charged debate – many speaking out publicly for the first time.
A study of hundreds of pregnant women over a
decade found that 72 percent of those who were denied care ended up living in
poverty.
Chabeli Carrazana, Economy Reporter, 19th
News
September 7, 2021
For the better part of a decade, Diana Greene Foster followed 1,000 women who
were seeking an abortion. One group received the care, and the other was denied
it: The pregnancies were too far along. As Foster watched Texas become the
first state to have a six-week abortion ban go into effect last week, she
thought of what she now knows are the myriad repercussions of that decision.
Foster’s study, one of the most comprehensive on the real-life consequences of
denied abortion access, showed that beyond the mental and physical health
outcomes, economic wellbeing also plummets when people can’t access abortion
care.
Continued: https://19thnews.org/2021/09/abortion-economy-poverty-texas-law/
Hyde binds the seemingly separable issues of pregnancy, domestic abuse, poverty, and the global pandemic
By KYLIE CHEUNG
PUBLISHED AUGUST 28, 2021
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed a historic budget that didn't include the Hyde Amendment, a budget rider that's severely restricted coverage of abortion care by withholding federal funding since 1976. Of course, the gift of hindsight shows us celebrations of this monumental moment proved slightly premature, when it was quietly undone with a single stroke on Aug. 10.
By a narrow margin, determined as ever to deny us good things, the US Senate adopted an amendment to restore Hyde to the budget, and usher in yet another year of abortion care being all but banned for those who are struggling financially. Today, despite the relative quietness and feelings of helplessness attached to this loss for reproductive justice, we're closer than ever to eliminating Hyde, and there's too much at stake — especially for many victims of domestic abuse — to give up now.
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