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Dobbs: One Year After 06/26/2023 |
One year since the ripping away of 49 years of a “constitutional right” to abortion, namely Roe vs Wade, facts are emerging about the
consequences.
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The issue is not a religious one—Roe vs. Wade never declared that anyone had to have an abortion. Therefore, it never interfered with peoples’ conscience. It did allow that persons are the ones—not government—to make
decisions | State of abortion, one year after Dobbs decision. Report by MSNBC. |
about what to do with their own body. Here are some consequences now apparent from the Dobbs
decision: A 29 year old Texan woman was forced to carry her pregnancy to term even though her baby was diagnosed with a lethal condition. A 10 year old child in Ohio who was raped and told she must bring the fetus to term, had to leave the state for an abortion, and the provider was sued. Black, Hispanic and Native American women were among the groups
disproportionally affected by the decision. |
| 68% of OB-GYNs surveyed by Kaiser Permanente say the Dobbs decision has made the management of maternal health emergencies worse, and 64% said it has had negative effects on maternal mortality as well. Dealing with emergencies is more dangerous. Women were denied vital care of ectopic pregnancies and
miscarriages, due to physicians' worries about violating confusing new laws especially in states like Tennessee and Texas. |
US maternal mortality rates, already the highest of any developed country, went up.
Low-income women—disproportionately young, black and brown—are most severely impacted by the decision. Unequal access to quality family planning services, economic disadvantage and distrust of the medical system all play a role, as well as discrimination when they do receive medical care. |
Poorer maternal bonding at an early age results in families of those where abortion is denied. “There will be a great number of younger and larger families living in poverty” observed one expert. States that ban abortion most often lack social services supporting children and families and have not expanded
Medicaid. Nor do they offer paid family leave. | |
The impact “is likely to be long-term, sweeping, and dire....more women will die, more families will live in poverty and society will bearlarger consequence in the decades to come” said one expert. “This is structural violence,” says Boston University health law professor Julia Raifman. “The US already has higher child poverty than many countries. This will exacerbate that.”* In whose world is this “right to life”? to be
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Queries for Contemplation Race, poverty, wealth, class as well as religion, politics and judicial decision-making all
play a role in the abortion debacle now gripping America. How do you see a way forward? |
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