People of color will face the brunt of the impact if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court, abortion rights advocates warn.
A leaked draft opinion indicates the Supreme Court could rule in favor of a Mississippi law and overturn Roe v. Wade in the coming months, leading to a country-wide overhaul of abortion rights.
The landmark decision that protected a person's right to have an abortion is in danger of being overturned by the high court's conservative majority, accordingActivists who work in Black and brown communities fear the socioeconomic effects of this potential decision from the highest court in the country. Abortion rights, they say, are an economic and health justice issue.
Abortion rights advocates say there are several factors that may go into a person's decision to seek an abortion, including health care access and quality, financial support and willingness to be pregnant. "This is not something where it's either: make a choice to choose to be a parent or not to choose to be a parent," said Oriaku Njoku, co-founder and executive director of ARC-Southeast, an abortion fund in Georgia that serves six states across the Southeast region."There's so many things like access to food, access to a living wage, access to insurance, your race, your gender, your ability to make money for your family.
She says that not just the right to have an abortion, but also the right to access an abortion has long been threatened and that many people are struggling with the multifaceted injustices in poverty, health care and stability.Amanda Furdge talks about the contrast of easily finding abortion services when she lived in Illinois and the difficulty of finding the services after she moved back to Mississippi, which has only one abortion clinic, during an interview in Clinton, Miss., on Dec.
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