We can't cow to the notion that abortion is a hard but necessary option for a few "unfortunates." Saying that abortion is a devastating choice or “should be rare” implies that abortion signals a personal, moral, or physical failing—and that it's not the best decision for many women.
“Rural women, women of color, low-income women will be disproportionately affected the closure of the clinic,” said Margaret Chapman Pomponio, executive director of WV FREE. “It means that getting by day-to-day for marginalized women just got harder in West Virginia.”
"Without the ACA, I will lose not only years on my quality of life, but [also] my identity, my few opportunities to contribute to the economy, my community, and the world around me.”
Despite Indiana’s hostility to reproductive freedom, there are many passionate and committed Hoosiers who fight for that freedom and for reproductive justice issues, such as the Indiana Reproductive Justice Coalition.
Gorsuch’s decision was largely adopted by the conservative Roberts Court majority in its 2014 decision ruling that secular, for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby could make religious objections to complying with certain regulations.
Trump's latest executive order highlights what is becoming standard practice within his administration: obscuring the destructive impact of an action on some marginalized communities by couching it in a feigned concern for “protecting” others.
“Today’s ruling acknowledges that these regulations do nothing to protect public health while imposing new burdens and uncertainty on health care providers and the diverse communities they serve,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Before the Winston-Salem Journal published a five-part series on North Carolina’s eugenics program in 2002, few had ever heard of the issue of coerced sterilization in the state, even though it was hiding in plain sight.
The case of Amanda Mellet, who had to leave Ireland to get an abortion due to a fatal fetal condition, has created a roadmap for advocates to call out the prohibition and criminalization of abortion by any country as a violation of human rights.
