Issue #41
Hi all —
As expected with the current U.S. Supreme Court composition and their leaked opinion in May, the court overturned protections for abortion in the United States last week.
Now’s not the time to hear from more men professing about something they will never experience biologically or inherently understand themselves. Including me.
So here are some articles to check out — by women or those who have interviewed women about this issue:
What abortion looks like in every state — right now (Jasmine Mithani, Shefali Luthra, Abby Johnston for The 19th News)
AAPIs could face worse health outcomes in a post-Roe America (Katelyn Monaco and Mary Yang for The Yappie)
I was forced to give birth to my rapist’s baby. The end of Roe means more will suffer my hell. (Dina Zirlott for HuffPost)
The abortion stories we tell: Do we need to be more radically honest? (Maggie Doherty for The Yale Review)
This anti-abortion group shapes laws nationwide (Amanda Becker for The 19th News)
One of the most powerful anti-abortion organizations calls Colorado home, a state that may soon see a lot more abortions (Dan Boyce for Colorado Public Radio)
Dark money led to this moment: A secretive donor network built the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority (Andrew Perez and Aditi Ramaswami for The Lever)
The Texas abortion ban handed abusers a whole new tool to control their victims with (Alanna Vagianos for HuffPost)
The religious right and the abortion myth (Randall Balmer for POLITICO)
The U.S. has the highest rate of deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth in the developed world. Half of the deaths are preventable. (Nina Martin for ProPublica)
According to the political organization Indian American Impact’s research in 2021:
More than 70% of Indian Americans believe abortion should be legal in most circumstances
26% say it should be legal in more limited circumstances
Only 3% of believe abortion should be totally illegal
According to the Pew Research Center analysis:
74% of Asian Americans overall believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases — the highest proportion of any major ethnicity in the U.S.
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