Thread by @PNHP

The sustained attack on abortion rights in the U.S. is nothing short of a public health emergency. 🧵

Criminalizing abortion would prove deadly under any circumstances, but especially in a nation with sky-high (and worsening) maternal mortality, an unaddressed mental heath crisis, and daunting financial barriers to even basic health services.

More info at pnhp.org/MaternalMortal…

Late last year, experts estimated that the now-in-effect abortion restrictions in Texas would make that state’s worst-in-the-nation record on maternal mortality even worse.

Full estimates here: bit.ly/3ycg8q2

And like so much that is wrong with U.S. health care, the effects of overturning Roe v. Wade would be felt differently depending on race, geography, and wealth.

Instead of universal legal protections, we would have a multi-tier and inequitable patchwork of protections.

In a just and equitable society, reproductive health care would be readily available to *everybody* — not just through settled law, but through a #SinglePayer national health program that guaranteed abortion coverage for every patient and for every community.