Parva Pouriamehr/Staff reporter
On June 24 of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, a legislation that gave people the right and access of getting an abortion, that had made it a right that abortion had to be available to women in all 50 U.S. states.
The overturning of Roe V. Wade decision is an act against basic human rights and an act that takes away the voice and choice of those who are relevant to the issue.
Almost 75 percent of US abortion patients live at or up to 250 percent below the federal poverty level that makes them unable to financially support and provide for a child, which then leads to a huge increase of unsafe abortion and maternal mortality.
“There’s so many things like access to food, access to a living wage, access to insurance, your race, your gender, your ability to make money for your family,” said Oriaku Njoku, co-founder and executive director of ARC-Southeast, an abortion fund in an article published by ABC News.
The impact of this act on people of color is a whole separate problem; “When we live in a world in a country where access to health care is already extremely limited to people of color … that is a problem” said Monica Raye Simpson, the executive director of the Southern-based reproductive justice group SisterSong in the ABC News article.
The banning of abortion has a big impact not only on those who live in the U.S. but on people in all the countries that have banned abortion during the years. Abortion is a huge part of healthcare which should be provided for everyone, this is a serious worldwide issue that needs to be solved; banning of abortion is only going to put more lives in danger.
Fortunately, Canada has been offering safe and legal abortion to people since 1988, and the courts have banned the federal government from criminalizing it, so it is safe to say that those who live in Canada have no restriction from getting an abortion.
Sources:
https://www.american.edu/cas/news/roe-v-wade-overturned-what-it-means-whats-next.cfm
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