“Black women more often suffer from the medical conditions aggravated by pregnancy. Black women have higher rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and cervical cancer. They are three times more likely to die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Although I have emphasized the harm in policies that discourage poor Black women from having babies, these women are also entitled to information about abortion to make a considered decision about whether to carry the pregnancy to term. In addition, Black women are more likely than white women to face barriers to obtaining abortion services such as inability to afford an abortion or to locate a safe abortion provider in their neighborhood. Delays in learning the whereabouts of available abortion services, therefore, can be especially devastating.”
- Dorothy Roberts in Killing the Black Body (via daniellemertina)
- Dorothy Roberts in Killing the Black Body (via daniellemertina)