Pregnant and on Parole? The Cruel Abortion Ban No One is Talking About
June 24 marked two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping abortion and reproductive rights from millions of women. Now that abortion rights are decided by individual states, the number of patients traveling out-of-state for the procedure has nearly doubled from 1 in 10 to nearly 1 in 5. […]
June 24 marked two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping abortion and reproductive rights from millions of women. Now that abortion rights are decided by individual states, the number of patients traveling out-of-state for the procedure has nearly doubled from 1 in 10 to nearly 1 in 5. And it has had a disproportionate effect on marginalized women, including those on probation or parole. Wanda Bertram, with the Prison Policy Initiative, joins the show to consider how the evisceration of abortion rights has further disenfranchised women caught in the carceral justice system.
