On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss continuing attacks on reproductive rights and the economic and health implications for women and families who live in states where abortion is restricted or banned.
The states that have banned abortion are the same ones that do the least to help pregnant people and new parents make ends meet, according to In These Times.
Eight of the 14 states that now ban abortion also fail to ensure pregnant workers have the right to workplace accommodations. None have guaranteed paid maternity and paternity leave or paid sick days, and five have refused to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage for mothers in the first year after giving birth — an extremely critical period for parents.
Guests:
Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at The Nation
Bryce Covert, award winning independent journalist
Web Resources:
In These Times: What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs
Columbia Journalism Review: Everywhere and Nowhere
ABC: Tennessee woman gets emergency hysterectomy after doctors deny early abortion care
NBC: North Carolina’s abortion law may make traveling to end a pregnancy impossible for some in the South
The New York Times: Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned
