'As the country tried to make sense of how to handle the pandemic, politicians who had been pushing anti-abortion agendas for years seized on it as an opportunity.'
Medicaid-eligible people who seek an abortion have been denied care altogether, forcing them to carry a pregnancy to term.
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed and amplified deep, pervasive inequalities and injustices in so many areas: From the precarity of low-income workers to the fatal disparities inaffecting Black women to the unequal access to health care in neighboring zip codes, COVID-19 has laid bare the way that socioeconomic status and race shape daily life, and health, in our country.
While many are eager to resume our pre-COVID-19 lives, it is clearer than ever that there was much about the old “normal” that must change. If we want to ensure that people who have decided that abortion is the best decision for themselves and their families can get the care they need, we cannot go back to the pre-pandemic status quo.
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