A Matter of Facts — March 2023

A Matter of Facts — March 2023dtarnowskiMarch 15, 2023 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTSStrengthening global research capacity • Philosophy of misogyny • Smuggling abortion pills to Ukraine • Stagnant US funding for global family planningFrom Our PresidentFifty years afterRoe v. Wade was decided, and only nine months after it was overturned, abortion care is completely banned or heavily restricted in13 US states. The loss of federal protection for abortion rights has left the country divided and abandoned providers and patients to an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape. Anti-abortion actors have wasted little time exploiting these vulnerabilitiesin court. The pending ruling in a federal district court in Texas could potentially revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ’s 2000 approval of mifepristone, one of the two medications used for a common medication abortion regimen, banning it nationwide. Guttmacher research has consistently shown that evenwhere abortion is restricted, people often find a way to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Restrictions create financial and logistical barriers to necessary care, and navigating these barriers is hardest forthose already marginalized by economic inequity and structural racism. People with resources find safe abortion options, legal or not; those without resources may turn to less safe methods or may be forced to endure an unwanted pregnancy. The only possible response to the rollback of abortion rights and access is to roll up...
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: news