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Thursday, September 14th, 2023

The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy

Author:     LAUREN LEADER
Source:     Politico Magazine
Publication Date:     09/13/2023 | 01:00 PM EDT
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Stephan:  

The obsessive actions of the MAGAt Taliban to control women is producing, as this article describes, a major change in American culture, and this change is going to have profound implications for the country’s future. And be very clear this has nothing to do with people pro-life. If the MAGAt Taliban were actually pro-life then they would be supporting child care, working to reduce maternal mortality, working to alleviate child poverty, supporting school lunch programs, but they aren’t doing any of those things. This is about men controlling women, and keeping them in a subordinate position. It is evil, and the only way it is going to stop is voting Republicans out of office.

Poor or unavailable maternal healthcare post-Dobbs is leading a third of women to alter one of their most important life choices. Credit: Christophe Archambault / Getty

The end of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 has had a profound effect on maternal healthcare and abortion access across the country. Fourteen states have now completely banned abortion and two dozen more have bans at 22 weeks or less. As a result, an already grim maternal health care landscape has worsened.

New data reveals an unexpected consequence of these developments: Young women, even those in states where abortion remains legal, say they are foregoing having children because they are afraid to get pregnant because of changes that followed the Dobbs decision that ended Roe.

Polling conducted in August by my organization, All In Together, in partnership with polling firm Echelon Insights found that 34 percent of women aged 18-39 said they have “decided not to get pregnant due to concerns about managing pregnancy-related medical emergencies.” Put another way, poor or unavailable maternal healthcare post-Dobbs is leading a third of women to alter one of […]

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