Using the coronavirus crisis as cover, an increasing number of states are moving to temporarily ban abortion outright, claiming that it is not essential health care
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Images As the coronavirus pandemic worsens across the United States, prompting stay-at-home orders in 20 states, economic freefall, and pleas from desperate doctors for basic medical supplies, another crisis is looming. Using all this chaos as cover, an increasing number of states are moving to temporarily ban abortion outright, claiming that it is not essential health care.
This is a nearly apocalyptic scenario for patients and providers, who are now seeing their worst fears about a post-Roe America fast-tracked under the guise of protecting citizens’ health. They are witnessing the state dismiss the right to basic bodily autonomy as superfluous — as though being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term is akin to postponing routine dental work. “What’s happening here is unconscionable,” said one organizer in Texas. “It’s been a wild and scary few days.
The justification that abortion is not “essential” directly contradicts established medical consensus that limiting abortion access has profoundly negative effects on patients’ health and well-being. Closing clinics runs the risk of pushing patients toward unsafe alternatives, or causing delays to vital prenatal care for those who do give birth. Making matters worse, in-clinic abortion is subject to several pressing time constraints.
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