To most of the medical system, we’re secondary to the fetuses we carry.
By Irin Carmon, a features writer at New York Magazine
Oct 23, 2025
Four days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I arrived hot and resentful to a Manhattan hospital for a 32-week ultrasound accompanied by my husband. There was no particular reason for the scan, no diagnosed concern, just an impersonal risk calculation based on the fact that I was, at 38, of “advanced maternal age.”
This would be my second child, and admittedly some jadedness had set in. As a reporter, I’d also been more than a little distracted; I’d been covering the high court’s decision in Dobbs, which had almost instantly banned abortion in 13 states.
Continued: https://www.thecut.com/article/make-pregnancy-care-like-abortion-care.html
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