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2014

Law and Gender

American University Washington College of Law

Abortion restrictions

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The Consequences Of Abortion Restrictions For Women's Healthcare, Maya Manian Jan 2014

The Consequences Of Abortion Restrictions For Women's Healthcare, Maya Manian

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This Essay challenges the false assumption that abortion care can be segregated from women’s medical care and targeted for special restrictions without any effects on women’s health more broadly. As a matter of medical reality, abortion cannot be isolated from the continuum of women’s healthcare. Yet policymakers and the public have failed to understand the interconnectedness of abortion with other aspects of women’s medical care. In fact, existing abortion restrictions harm women’s health even for women not actively seeking abortion care, but these impacts remain obscured. For example, antiabortion laws and policies have spillover effects on miscarriage management, prenatal care, …