An organization found that women of color in states with restrictive abortion laws often have limited access to health care and a lack of choices for effective birth control.
HOUSTON, Texas -- If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one.And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, minority women who already face limited access to health care will bear the brunt of it, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press.
Why the great disparities? Laurie Bertram Roberts, executive director of the Alabama-based Yellowhammer Fund, which provides financial support for women seeking abortion, said women of color in states with restrictive abortion laws often have limited access to health care and a lack of choices for effective birth control. Schools often have ineffective or inadequate sex education.
"People are going to have to vote," said Furdge, 34, who is happily raising her now 7-year-old son but continues to advocate for women having the right to choose."People are going to have to put the people in place to make the decisions that align with their values. When they don't, things like this happen."
But Andy Gipson, a former member of the Mississippi Legislature who is now the state's agriculture and commerce commissioner, said race had nothing to do with passage of Mississippi's law against abortion after the 15th week. That law is the one now before the Supreme Court in a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
Fitch, who is divorced, often points to her own experience of working outside the home while raising three children. But Fitch grew up in an affluent family and has worked in the legal profession - both factors that can give working women the means and the flexibility to get help raising children. Across the country, U.S. Census Bureau information analyzed by The Associated Press shows fewer Black and Hispanic women have health insurance, especially in states with tight abortion restrictions. For example, in Texas, Mississippi and Georgia, at least 16% of Black women and 36% of Latinas were uninsured in 2019, some of the highest such rates in the country.
"They'd tell you, 'If you have sex, this is who you are now: You're just like this piece of tape - all used up and washed up and nobody would want it,'" Harden said. Outside the only abortion clinic operating in Mississippi, protesters hand out brochures that refer to abortion as Black"genocide" and say the late Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and a proponent of eugenics,"desired to eradicate minorities." The brochures compare Sanger to Adolf Hitler and proclaim:"Black lives did not matter to Margaret Sanger!"
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