Pregnancy should not render women second-class citizens. But in abortion-hostile states, it does.
Where abortion is outlawed, women receive substandard healthcare. Some are fighting back.
Women well into their wanted pregnancies who developed complications, but were refused care that would have been standard in a pro-choice state because their fetus still had a heartbeat.Women who saw their fertility compromised—who lost fallopian tubes or uteruses—because they were refused appropriate care.Women who had fetuses with abnormalities incompatible with life, who were nonetheless forced to continue their pregnancies at unnecessary physical risk and give birth to babies that died.
Health workers also know they are being surveilled and targeted. Not everyone who works in a hospital is pro-choice; what if a doctor gives a pregnant women accurate health information in front of an anti-abortion nurse who construes it as “aiding and abetting” abortion? What if
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