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For decades, many women of color, particularly those with low incomes, had little control over their family planning care. Now, a White House effort aims to give patients more choices as abortion care evaporates, but patients remain wary of providers.
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JACKSON, Miss. â Two years ago, after an emergency cesarean section at a Mississippi hospital, Sherika Trader was denied a tubal ligation. Trader, now 33, was told that to have her tubes tied, she had to have a second child or a husbandâs permission, even though she wasnât married. Jasymin Shepherd had heavy menstrual cycles because of a birth control pill prescribed after the birth of her son ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Two years ago, after an emergency cesarean section at a Mississippi hospital, Sherika Trader was denied a tubal ligation. Trader, now 33, was told that to have
A battle between the federal and state governments centers on reproductive health, abortion access and women's rights.
Abortion politics have created a power struggle over the administration of federal family planning dollars in conservative-leaning states.