Black Girls’s Well being Crucial Assertion on Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade

ATLANTA (Might 4) — Immediately, Byllye Avery, founding father of the Nationwide Black Girls’s Well being Challenge and its successor the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial, and Linda Goler Blount, President and CEO of the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial, issued the next assertion in response to the leaked Supreme Court docket majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade:

“We on the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial, the primary and solely nationwide non-profit solely devoted to reaching well being fairness for Black ladies in America, are dismayed to study that the U.S. Supreme Court docket majority has drafted an opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. If affirmed, this determination may have life-altering ramifications for all People, however particularly Black ladies. 

“Roe has given Black ladies the bodily autonomy we’ve traditionally been denied. In so doing, the landmark determination has contributed to the bodily, emotional, and monetary well being of tens of millions of Black ladies. If issued, the Court docket’s opinion will jeopardize that autonomy and the development of Black ladies on this nation.

“Overturning Roe v. Wade will imply that there will probably be a small patchwork of states that present  abortion providers. It will considerably restrict entry to ladies who're financially challenged and might’t afford to journey throughout state strains to acquire reproductive well being care. The choice can even negatively influence the lives of probably the most weak of us — our younger Black ladies who're victims of incest, rape, and intercourse trafficking and are usually not but prepared for parenting.

“This end result can be notably devastating for Black ladies, who already face large hurdles to receiving abortion providers and are greater than 3 occasions as prone to die throughout childbirth as white ladies. We all know that the only most cited purpose Black ladies give for searching for abortion care is the lack to afford a toddler.  If Roe is certainly overturned, they and their kids would doubtless be condemned to a lifetime of poverty and poor well being outcomes.

“Immediately, we should remind ourselves that whereas abortion remains to be authorized in all 50 states, we should struggle to guard Black ladies’s proper to bodily autonomy and their bodily and financial wellbeing. 

“The choice appears doubtless — however it's not ultimate.

“Thus, the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial urges the Supreme Court docket to uphold Roe v. Wade — and the a long time of progress made by Black ladies.

“We encourage every person who is concerned about women losing the ability to make the most basic health and wellness decisions for themselves and their families to raise their voices. Join our movement to advocate, call their representatives, and support our partners at Liberate Abortion in peaceful protests at the Supreme Court steps. We must uphold Roe.”

For extra info on what you are able to do earlier than that ultimate determination, go to https://www.liberateabortion.org and https://bwhi.org/take-action.