If you can't choose whether to become a mom, with all its risks, #MothersDay is a cruel joke.
States enacting abortion restrictions increased their maternal mortality rate by 38%.
States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports.
Two of the women in the Turnaway Study DIED from giving birth after they were denied abortions.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1111344810/abortion-ban-states-social-safety-net-health-outcomes
60% of people seeking abortion care are already moms.
Today is "the first Mother's Day since [GOP's Catholic SCOTUS]...struck down [our] constitutional right to abortion" in Dobbs.
58% of us now live in states where GOP legislatures ban or restrict abortion.
The Turnaway Study looked at 1000 women in 21 states, similar when they sought abortions. The women's lives "diverged after in ways that were directly attributable to whether they received an abortion."
Abortion denial harmed women, & their children, for years/a lifetime: higher poverty, more evictions, more food & housing insecurity, debt & bankruptcies, & lower credit scores.
Domestic violence decreased for women who received the abortion, but increased for those denied an abortion.
Two of the study's subset who were denied abortions, DIED from giving birth.
The study author includes in her book a very representative familial story that shows the lifetime harms to women under religious regimes like the ones the GOP seeks to impose.
Worth reading even just this transcript of her interview with Terry Gross.
Erin Conroy
JohnMashey