George Rose/Getty ImagesĬalifornia’s parks want people to enjoy the superbloom and connect to the great outdoors – but to leave the flowers alone. Pregnancy and childbirth alone can cost thousands of dollars.īlack and Hispanic people are 1.8 and 1.5 times as likely to be in poverty than white people, according to 2019 census data.Colorful mustard, goldfields, poppies and other wildflowers have exploded along California's Highway 41, located on the San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Monterey County borders, on April 12. Improving access to health care, education, family planning I feel like those are better ways to reduce unintended pregnancies than trying to restrict abortion.'įor others, terminating unintended pregnancies can be a financial decision.Īctivists say abortion bans will only push pregnant people into poverty or into debt. 'This is denying the next generation a better future. 'The real issue is the historic and ongoing disparities and access to quality health care, and sexual and reproductive health information in Black and brown communities,' Njoku told ABC News. And unintended pregnancies increase the risk for poor maternal and infant outcomes, the CDC reports. For Black women, the rate increased nearly 26% from the year prior.īeing pregnant presents some kind of risk.

The rate for Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 in 2020 and the rate for white women was 19.1 deaths per 100,000, according to the CDC. '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.' 'This is not something where it's either: make a choice to choose to be a parent or not to choose to be a parent,' said Oriaku Njoku, co-founder and executive director of ARC-Southeast, an abortion fund in Georgia that serves six states across the Southeast region. Abortion rights, they say, are an economic and health justice issue.Ībortion rights advocates also say there are several factors that may go into a person's decision to seek an abortion, including health care access and quality, financial support and willingness to be pregnant. The landmark precedent that protected a person's right to have an abortion was overturned by the high court's conservative majority.Īctivists who work in Black and brown communities fear the socioeconomic effects of this decision. People of color will likely face the brunt of negative impact following the Supreme Court's overturning Roe v.

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