Newkirk said the family is also having to deal with the financial responsibility of keeping Smith on life support.
Literally the fucking Handmaid’s Tale.
By the way, black women in the US are 3.5x more likely to die in childbirth than white women are. How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?
Goddamn anti choice proponents really have no empathy. Subjugation of women and people of color is the point. If it is cruel, they will do it.
At least five women I can find have died so far from being denied reproductive health care - I believe almost all of them women of color. Three in Texas and two in Georgia.
It really is about subjugation. And this specific case does tie into the fact that black women in the US frequently do not receive sufficient medical care:
Monica Simpson, executive director of the organization SisterSong, said the first issue with Smith’s case is that she did not receive proper care when she sought help for her headaches.
Another reminder that if you are in the US and have medical care options aside from a Catholic or Christian hospital system, change your primary care to an institution that supports the full spectrum of reproductive health care. Tell the assholes that you are leaving exactly why you are leaving.
Yeah Hello Women, as someone living in a state that votes in blue policies, please PLEASE try your best to move to one. Nobody deserves to live in a state where they pay taxes and contribute to society, that makes it ever so fucking clear it does not care about you. I know this isnt a good solution because moving requires money and resources but the faster this type of movement begins the faster we get to phase out these hellish, outdated republican policies for better more progressive ones.
