Lower-income Asian women fall at the intersection of many barriers when it comes to healthcare. A new report is one of the first meaningful looks experts have gotten at access to reproductive care and abortion access across AAPI ethnicities.
“Deep down I was sure that we were incapable financially of bringing a new baby into this world," said an Asian woman in Texas who got an abortion secretly on a rushed timeline.When a young Rohingya woman touched down in New York in 2018, she thought she had finally reached safety — the end to an arduous lifelong journey of fleeing persecution without much choice.
She was scared, she said, and there were many things holding her back — stigma, religion and the fear her husband would find out she was pregnant. But chief among them was money. She would go on to have an abortion, hidden from her husband, through funds raised by community members. Indian women are the largest group of Asian American and Pacific Islanders affected by Roe’s overturn, with 362,000 of them living in states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion. Although the number is smaller for Myanmar women — around 25,200 — it comprises the majority of their population in the U.S.
After she failed to get support from mutual funds in the area, Ghosh started crowdfunding to help get her client the abortion she needed.
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