Your healthcare may be limited by the religious interests directing your local hospital, even If you live in a blue, abortion haven state.
Across from the Planned Parenthood clinic, Catholic nuns pray with a group of anti-abortion activists on Sept. 2, 2023, in New York City. Abortion rights activists staged a counterprotest.
Abortion bans—whether administered by a religiously controlled hospital or the state—are a systemic way to oppress and control the lives of people with the least access to healthcare and resources. They are racist, harming historically marginalized Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color. They discriminate against low-income people who often cannot afford to travel or get time away from jobs to access abortion care in “haven” states.
In recent years, there have been several hospital mergers in Washington with religiously affiliated healthcare corporations. In some counties, the only hospitals or healthcare facilities serving the public are religiously affiliated. The ACLU of Washingtonthe horror of obstetricians as they referred patients to “faith-based” hospitals who then refused or delayed terminations of pregnancies with complications, even if a patient’s health was at stake.
Whether in a “red” or “blue” state, we must demand transparency from those using religious sanctimony to deny us the healthcare we need and control of our own lives.The First Tool to Name Obstetric Racism Might Finally Push Policymakers Into Action
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