For Black Women With Means, Money Isn’t The Only Barrier To Abortion Access
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By Ja’Han Jones. Huffington Post
…Within the past three months alone, state legislatures in both Alabama and Missouri moved to ban abortion outright; other state legislatures around the country have taken similar steps since the start of the year….
It is mostly women of color who will feel the impact of such bans…Recent studies show women of color account for more than half of the country’s annual abortion procedures on average, and Black women specifically account for just over 25 percent of all abortions.
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Linda Goler Blount, chief executive of the Black Women’s Health Imperative based in Atlanta, Georgia, is focused on ensuring that reproductive health access remains a right…
HuffPost spoke with Goler Blount last month about her current stewardship of the organization, the obvious barriers Black women face in acquiring reproductive care, and the more insidious methods used to bar Black women from abortion access….
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