Reproductive health policy exacerbates the Black maternal morbidity crisis

(The Dallas Examiner) – Reproductive health has taken center stage this election year, and there have been recent policy changes that have outsized impacts on people of color and low-income Americans.“What we are seeing in this post-Roe public health policy landscape, we’re really seeing come to life the reality that abortion cannot be segregated from the rest of reproductive health care and sort of targeted for restrictions without having all of these ripple effects,” stated Maya Manian J.D., law professor and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Program at American University Washington College of Law, during the Center for Health Journalism webinar – Disappearing Options: Tracking the Story on Reproductive Health Care.Related Stories “Abortion is deeply intertwined with a whole spectrum of health care issues, including things like prenatal care and pregnancy complications. Such as for miscarriage management or ectopic pregnancies, with fertility care like access to IVF, with childbirth and maternal mortality rates…we are seeing all of these side effects on equitable access to health care, more broadly than just for people actively seeking abortion care … that is a group that is disproportionately low income and people of color due to widespread health disparities.”Louisiana passed a...