With Black girls’s reproductive rights beneath assault, Black Girls’s Well being Crucial (BWHI) points the next assertion on SCOTUS’ determination to protect entry to secure medicine abortion:
“Black girls throughout America have one much less fear,” Linda Goler Blount, MPH stated, President of Black Girls’s Well being Crucial.
Late final week the Supreme Courtroom issued a choice to pause a decrease courtroom ruling in Alliance for Hippocratic Drugs v. FDA. A ruling that challenged the FDA’s 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, a part of a two-drug protocol for medicine abortion, the commonest type of abortion within the US.
“The preservation of the proper to medicine used to help girls’s total reproductive well being means Black girls could make healthcare choices with out worry of arrest or incarceration,” stated Blount. “Because the dismantling of Roe, BWHI has anxious in regards to the well being and security of Black girls within the face of unabashed authorized maneuvers flagrantly designed to stop Black girls from making essentially the most primary well being care choices. This morning, we’re much less anxious, however we stay vigilant. Our struggle for full rights to bodily autonomy continues.”
BWHI will proceed to face with companions on this struggle and stay steadfast in missions to guard and promote the well being fairness wants of Black girls.
In regards to the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial:The Black Girls’s Well being Crucial is the primary and solely nationwide non-profit group created for and by Black girls devoted to bettering the well being and wellness of our nation’s 22 million Black girls and women — bodily, emotionally, and naturally financially. Our core mission is advancing well being fairness and social justice for Black girls, throughout their lifespan, via coverage, advocacy, schooling, analysis, and management improvement. www.bwhi.org
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