The US Supreme Court ruling to strike down Roe v. Wade ignores solid scientific evidence that this decision will harm women, say public health researchers
“Based on what we know about how women respond to travel distance, about three-quarters of them are still going to manage to get out and reach a provider, and about a quarter of them won’t,” Myers says. This quarter represents the poorest and most vulnerable people, she adds.will also affect the states where abortion remains legal.
The problem is that many people don’t know much about abortion medication, says Heidi Moseson, an epidemiologist based in Oakland, California, who works at Ibis Reproductive Health, a global research organization that supports abortion rights. She and her colleagues have studiedabortion attempts among transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive people in the United States. One in five people in their study who had ever been pregnant tried to self-manage an abortion.
“People have been prosecuted for self-managing their abortion, and some laws have been applied outside of their intended scope to criminalize people,” Moseson says.will fall on all pregnant people, not only on those seeking an abortion. In a June article in, she and her co-authors highlighted that people with pregnancy complications or adverse pregnancy outcomes such as miscarriages or stillbirths might become vulnerable to legal surveillance and criminal prosecution.
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