Women of color will be most impacted by the end of Roe, experts say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : This will affect places where abortion is protected, such as the Northeast and the West coast, as demand for these services surge, Murray said.
51% : Because many Indigenous people cannot afford private health insurance, they have to rely on the federal Indian Health Service (IHS), which is subject to the Hyde Amendment, a provision that blocks federal funds from covering abortion services.
46% : She viewed abortion as the Supreme Court had laid it out in its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling: a fundamental right giving women the power to exercise control over their bodies.
43% :Even with Roe as the law of the land, access to abortion has been "very limited" for marginalized groups, who often encounter financial and structural barriers to accessing medical care, Murray said -- not having proper identification or documentation, a lack of sex education or not being able to afford or access contraception, for example.
39% : (Justice Samuel Alito, in the court's majority opinion, wrote in a footnote that it is "beyond dispute" that Roe has had a "demographic effect" -- "a highly disproportionate percentage of aborted fetuses are Black.")Not all states report racial and ethnic data on abortion, but among those who do (29 states and D.C.), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that a disproportionately high share are women of color.
39% : The state legislature in 2019 passed a "trigger" ban, which effectively outlaws abortion in the state.
39% : Of the 22 states that have banned or may now severely limit abortion, many are in the South, which is home to nearly half of the country's Black population.
36% : While Mitchell lives in a state where abortion is banned, she doesn't believe that will affect her: She is religious and doesn't foresee getting an abortion herself, she said.
36% : As word of the high court's decision spread on Friday, racial justice and women's rights organizations, alongside liberal lawmakers, condemned the decision, pointing to the ways it could harm people of color by restricting access to abortion and potentially criminalizing them for their pregnancy outcomes.
33% : Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote a concurring opinion on the Dobbs ruling, has previously compared abortion to a "tool of modern-day eugenics."
25% : [How every U.S. state has banned, limited or protected abortion]Many people anticipated that the court would strike down the constitutional protection of abortion after Alito's draft opinion was leaked in May.

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