“Access to abortion is so interconnected with these larger economic issues of financial security, independence, upward mobility, and this will affect millions, not just women and abortion patients but their households, their families, their other children,” added Banerjee. “You’re absolutely going to disproportionately see low- and middle-income and Black, Hispanic and other women of color hit the hardest by this decision because many of these women are already the most economically vulnerable.
to have expanded Medicaid, have fewer worker protections and typically have severely underfunded family social public service programs.
Before the pregnancy, both groups of women had similar financial trends, but afterward there was a drastic spike in financial problems for those women who were denied abortions.