Restrictive abortion laws disproportionately impact Black women in GOP-led states, new Democratic memo notes

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Source: CBS News

February 26, 2024 / 9:04 PM EST


The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the campaign arm that helps elect Democrats to state legislatures, is circulating a new memo in order to highlight what it says is the disproportionate impact of abortion bans on Black women in GOP-led states. Such bans provoke strong emotional responses from Democratic Black women state lawmakers — sadness, distress, but not surprise.

"It is sad, but it is not surprising. You know, the abortion bans — and certainly since the fall of Roe — have really jeopardized the health of women in general," New York Senate President Pro Tempore Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, told CBS News. "And because the Black maternal mortality rates are already alarmingly high, nationally, these bans have only exacerbated the overall reproductive health problems that Black women face. So it's sad. It's terribly disappointing."

Black women have the highest abortion rate in the U.S., according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Abortion restrictions that have gone into effect across the U.S. since the Supreme Court ended federal protections for the procedure have only exacerbated previously existing socioeconomic disparities, abortion access advocates say.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/restrictive-abortion-laws-disproportionately-impact-black-women-in-gop-led-states-democratic-memo/

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1. Well, gee. That's not going to thwart "The Replacement Theory".

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3. Yep. This has been true for decades.

But the GQP are short-sighted idgits.

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2. Consequences as intended.

The fact that black women have maternal death rates nearly three times that of white women is most likely well known among Republican lawmakers, many of whom are white supremacists. The forced closure of women’s health clinics in states like Texas hurt poor women the most. But Republicans are now spending taxpayer money to fund Christian crisis pregnancy centers that provide no healthcare services because they are not medical professionals qualified to give healthcare. Republicans fund charlatans but not actual medical care.