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After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who are pregnant at risk. That threat is particularly urgent in states where lawmakers have made clear their intentions to roll back abortion rights.
With the new Supreme Court decision, access to abortion or even care during pregnancy for women in prison just became much harder.
Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade's constitutional protections for abortions.
‘It violates all the principles of reproductive justice.’
UPDATE: Report: Arkansas prisons resume medical co-pays, one of only three states to do so The Prison Policy Project calls out Arkansasfor being one of three states, along with Idaho and Minnesota, that have resumed co-pays for prisoners seeking medical treatment. They had been suspended in March on account of the pandemic, which has swept through the prison system. Despite a record number of new COVID-19 cases in prisons this month, some state departments of correction are already starting to roll back necessary suspensions of medical co-pays. Prior to the pandemic, most prison systems ch...