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Access to reproductive health care has been harder for Black and brown women – overturning Roe made it harder

  • Written by Kimala Price, Professor of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University
imageAn abortion rights activists is detained on June 30, 2022, during a rally near the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

In a mere few days after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, at least seven states banned abortion.

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