HealthyWomen Senior Policy Advisor Martha Nolan is featured in TheHill explaining the effects of a post-Roe world on women’s health.
Pregnancy, while a completely natural process for most women, can also be dangerous. Even healthy women can experience serious, life-threatening complications during pregnancy. And sometimes the only way to treat those conditions, such as miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies, are abortion procedures, such as dilation and curettage .
But beyond the heightened medical risks, there are further consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision that will increase out-of-pocket expenses for pregnant women and the children they bring to term.
You see, overturning Roe brings with it severe medical, financial and social consequences for women of childbearing age and their families. Taking away women’s reproductive and basic healthcare rights without simultaneously setting those same women up to raise their children successfully is, frankly, a disaster for our nation.
Let’s start just by looking at the financial costs of pregnancy. Prenatal care, delivery and postpartum care costs can range widely. The price depends on whether a woman experiences a relatively straightforward pregnancy, the type of delivery she has and any complications that may occur during the pregnancy or delivery. found that even the most seamless pregnancy, birth and postpartum period cost more than many families with insurance can afford.
On average, the price of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care comes to nearly $19,000. Hospital childbirth costs have increased
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