June has once again become a month officially dedicated to the celebration of the honor of the United States in the United States. LGBTQ community. if it were up to some leaders of the counter-movement, abortionwould be celebrated as the “month of life”. In this impetus for conservative activists to seek the new denomination, they are trying to mark the moment a year ago when six of the nine justices of the Supreme Court repealed the constitutional protection they had enjoyed since January 1973. abortion in the country, transforming the United States and new frontier, physical but also social.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s decision of June 24, 2022, repealing roe wade And returned the legislation to the statesthey are a the most fragmented and difficult country for women to navigate Those who need to terminate their pregnancy. And at that break, faults open, which you can see again. most affected negatively low-income and racial minority women.
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Thirteen states, mostly in the South, have full or near bans in effect.in most cases, without exception for situations such as rape or incest. Georgia banned it after six weeks of pregnancy, a period when many women didn’t even know they were pregnant. Others eight approved of the harsh restrictions either not yet enacted or currently paralyzed by court battles. And none will be more decisive than this FloridaThe country’s third most populous state and where most of the women affected by vetoes in the south now go: from six weeks on, the future of vetoes is up to the state’s Supreme Court.
Break even, 17 states and the District of Columbia have approved or strengthened rules to ensure access Abortion until the fetus is alive, which is estimated to be about 24 weeks of pregnancy, as well as protecting medical providers, women and those who help them. In addition, six state governments and 15 municipalities have raised up to $208 million to fund contraceptive methods or support people in need of financial assistance, according to data from the National Institute for Reproductive Safety.
an uneven blow
Although the total figures vary according to the person making the calculations, Between 22 and 25 million women of childbearing age in the US live in prohibited states. And according to the data of a survey conducted by the Family Planning Association (which does not take into account the interruption of pregnancy with drugs ordered from abroad), in the first nine months after the execution of the sentence, number of abortions in america fell about 3% 24,290 less than the previous year.
This decrease is particularly structural and social inequalities On issues such as maternal mortality and poverty. And the Dobbs fist is not evenly distributed in these. broken usaIt’s also where abortion rights advocates are holding their breath at the prospect that an attempt to ban or limit access to mifespristone, one of the two essential drugs for chemical abortion, might succeed in court.
As Caitlin Myers, an economics professor at Middlebury College in Vermont who studies abortion and maintains a database on the impact of the Supreme Court ruling, recalls, Three-quarters of abortion patients live on a low income, and about 50% live below the federal poverty level., those most affected were women of color or those experiencing economic hardship. And black, indigenous, and other non-white women who now have to commute longer.
In this new patched map, a 23% of women i have seen the time it takes to reach a medical provider increase and now on average about 480 kilometers nearest And if by June 2022 overall average distance from a provider It was 40 kilometers, up to April of this year. 137 kilometers.
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in the last year They closed more than 61 clinicsPlanned Parenthood facilities and doctor’s offices, about half of whom have shifted to things like birth control or prenatal care, and 16 opened in states where it is legal. But as Kelly Baden of the Guttmacher Institute condemns, “states that ban abortion they also threaten the health and well-being of people with unwanted pregnancies. who face emergency. Doctors and hospitals do not know how to operate or the darkest cloud of suspicion and hostility“, said.
Part of the problem is ambiguity of expression some restrictive laws that sow “chaos” and “mess,” according to repeated words by obstetricians and gynecologists. Legal doubts more difficult to attract specialists to states with veto or restrictions. And in a professional study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 40% they claimed that they suffered caregiving limitations in spontaneous abortions and other emergencies about pregnancy and 61% she said they do so when they make decisions about the care of their patients. worried about legal risks that they may encounter.