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- Title
"Shouldn't Nobody Make a Woman do What they Don't Want to do with their Body": Black Women's Reactions to the Supreme Court's Overturn of Roe v. Wade.
- Authors
Coates, Erica E.; de Heer, Rebecca; McLeod, Alison; Porter, Shy C.; Hoffman, Sarah Barclay
- Abstract
Black women, particularly those with low-income, are projected to be the most negatively impacted group following the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v Wade. It is expected that the rate of increase in live births, as well as the rate of maternal mortality, will be steepest for Black women due to high rates of unmet needs for contraception, unintended pregnancies, poverty, barriers to legal abortion access, and systemic racism. Previous research has shown that the legalization of abortion in 1973 significantly improved educational and employment outcomes for Black women, in particular. The current study seeks to assess the perceptions of predominantly under-resourced Black women following the overturning of Roe v Wade. Eighteen Black women participated in one of five focus groups during the summer of 2022 and shared their reactions to the Supreme Court ruling. Using grounded theory, researchers generated the following themes: sexism via forced births, economic implications, and dangers of banned abortions. Based on participants' concerns resulting from the Roe v Wade overturn, policy implications are provided for improving the following systems: safety net, child welfare, and infant and perinatal mental health care.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ABORTION laws; ABORTION in the United States; SEXISM; HEALTH services accessibility; AFRICAN Americans; WOMEN; RESEARCH funding; FOCUS groups; REPRODUCTIVE health; SOCIOECONOMIC status; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; COURTS; THEMATIC analysis; GROUNDED theory; REPRODUCTIVE rights; WOMEN'S rights; SOCIAL classes
- Publication
Journal of Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities, 2024, Vol 11, Issue 2, p968
- ISSN
2197-3792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40615-023-01577-7