With supply chain disruptions in India due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, medication abortion may be less accessible—an issue compounded by anti-choice state officials trying to ban the procedure and the FDA.
“Doing this work can weigh heavy—we know that even with all of the work that is being done to uplift issues around Black maternal health, Black mamas are still bearing the brunt of this crisis."
Reproductive health advocates worry that clinics operated by anti-choice activists could sow confusion among people seeking care during the COVID-19 outbreak.
"We hoped pulling back would send a general message to the protester community that everyone should take this seriously, but protesters have continued to show up."
“Every day I’m balancing my decision to help patients and not abandon my fellow physicians with my instinct to protect myself and my children at all cost.”
Even if a Jane’s judicial bypass case is approved, Texas’ ban on abortion has closed clinics across the state, leaving young people with limited options.
Abortion clinics protesters are fighting stay-at-home orders and putting pregnant people—who are immunosuppressed by virtue of being pregnant—at risk of contracting COVID-19.