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"You're listening to shortwave. From NPR. Hey, shortwaves, Emily quang here. We're picking up our conversation with Liza Fuentes, a senior research scientist at the gut mocker institute. Go back and listen to part one if you missed it. Where we discussed how abortion fits into healthcare and public health. In part two, we're going to discuss what that actually looks like in practice. A practice that's likely to shift in communities across the U.S.. Depending on the outcome of a Supreme Court case, Dobbs versus Jackson women's health organization. It deals with the Mississippi law that shortened the window for abortion from 20 weeks to 15. The Jackson clinic is the only abortion provider in the state. And currently, under the 1973 ruling known as roe V wade, women are guaranteed the right to have an abortion up until fetal viability. The time when a fetus can survive outside the womb, which and if the court upholds the 15 week Mississippi abortion ban, it erodes the constitutional right to abortion that was established by roe. Then each state would decide for itself how to regulate abortion access. Liza says this would have an immediate impact on families throughout the U.S.. The ability to decide if when and how to have a child is integral to people being able to have not just realized their health, but that of their families, right? A denied abortion at the very least could be economically devastating for a family that's already struggling to make ends meet, Liza's conclusion is supported by research. A 5 year study led by doctor Diana Greene foster called the turnaway study. Track the health and economic outcomes of nearly 1000 women who saw it and were denied abortions. People who become pregnant and are unable to get a safe legal abortion in their state, those that carry the pregnancy to term will experience long-term physical health and economic harm. Today on the show, the reality of what it means to treat abortion as healthcare. And how those states moving toward stricter abortion laws invest the least in women and children's health. You're listening to.
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"liza fuentes" Discussed on Short Wave
"Become pregnant in the U.S.? First of all, clearly, even in places where abortion is highly restricted or illegal, people still seek and obtain abortion care. But many people will be denied abortion care as well. And we can't ignore that, right? People who need abortion care will go to great lengths and I know this personally for king and abortion funds to be able to ensure that they can get the care they need, but it's not possible for everyone to overcome those tremendous costs. So people will be forced to continue a pregnancy and take on the risks of doing so for some of those people, it will be at the detriment of their health or potentially even their lives. Other people will be delayed in their care. Abortion is extremely safe, but the further along it is, the risks upticks slightly still safer than continuing pregnancy than giving birth. Still safer than getting a wisdom tooth out. But forcing people to take on any risk when they've done everything they can to take care of themselves, contributes certainly public health values and practice. But secondly, all pregnant people will be put at risk if row falls because people will be monitored, surveilled and harassed for the outcomes of their pregnancy, potentially. We already saw that with a young woman in Texas recently like last month who went to seek care for a miscarriage pregnancy in her clinician called the police on her, and it went to a grand jury and she was charged with murder, even though self managing an abortion is not illegal, and it's certainly is not considered murder. But the political climate made it possible for somebody to even think that that was okay. So people even seeking healthcare for bleeding during pregnancy for potential miscarriage may be put under scrutiny. And finally, if roe was overturned or severely gutted, that also impedes the ability of healthcare providers to be trained to take care of pregnant people, the fall of roe really is the potential to deny anyone who's pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. The ability to get the highest quality, timely care when they need it throughout their pregnancy. This is part one of our conversation with Liza Fuentes. Listen for part two, where we'll talk about what it looks like in practice for health agencies to treat abortion as a matter of public health. This episode was produced by burleigh, McCoy. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez and fact checked by Margaret Serena. The audio engineers for this episode were Josh Newell and Gilly moon. Gisele Grayson is our senior supervising editor. Beth Donovan is our senior director and Anya grundman is our senior vice president of programming. I'm Emily kwang. Thank you for listening to shortwave. The daily science.
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"liza fuentes" Discussed on Short Wave
"Trigger laws. Laws that would go into effect soon after the Supreme Court decision and would severely restrict most abortions. Establishing near total bans or bans after 6 weeks of gestation. In the earliest, a lot of people know they're pregnant is around four weeks. You can ban abortion of people still get abortions that is important to know that people will be denied care and that that will put their health at risk. Liza Fuentes is a senior research scientist at the gut mocker institute. A research organization that focuses on sexual and reproductive health and supports abortion rights. As a researcher, Liza says access to a safe abortion is healthcare and protecting that access is protecting public health. Public health is a broader practice that ensures the health of communities. So what goes into public health isn't just collecting data and looking at risk factors, but partnering with communities and looking at broader priorities in communities to promote health. Within any community in the U.S., a lot of different types of people seek abortion care. 60% of people obtaining abortion care are already mothers. Three quarters of people obtaining abortion live with low incomes or below the poverty line, 61% of people obtaining abortion care women of color, one in four abortion patients identify as Catholic, about half of people who get an abortion are in their 20s. And in the U.S., according to the gut mocha institute, about one in four women will obtain an abortion by the time they're 45. That number changes by country for sure. But certainly there's no country on this planet where people who are pregnant do not require the ability to terminate a pregnancy when they no longer want to be pregnant. Given how common abortion is worldwide, it's striking how seldom our society talks about it. When statistically speaking, everyone knows someone who has had one. To lose access to this procedure, not only impacts an individual, but their family and community too. If a person is forced to take on the risks of pregnancy when they didn't want to, and they become sick or even die, that affects their children's health and well-being. It affects their partners health and well-being. And frankly, it affects the whole community when a person dies before their time because they couldn't get the care that they needed. Today on the show, the intersection of abortion and public health. How abortion fits into healthcare and the safety of pregnant people. This is part one of our discussion with Liza, in part two, we'll talk about what it looks like in practice for health agencies to treat abortion as a matter of public health. I'm Emily kwang, thanks for listening to shortwave. The daily science podcast from NPR. Support for NPR and the following message come from thorns collagen plus, which combines clinically studied ingredients such as collagen peptides, nicotinamide riboside, and botanical extracts for promoting beauty from within, using one scoop, collagen plus is designed to combat the visible signs of aging by reducing fine lines and wrinkles and promoting vibrant and smooth skin. Get 10% off your first order at Thorne dot com slash U slash NPR. Public health is the practice of ensuring the health and well-being of communities. That's done through data collection, but also a lot of on the ground work, partnering with community groups, and really thinking about what policies lead to the best health outcomes. For the population you're trying to serve. So in the case of abortion, the question becomes, how do we protect the health of a pregnant person? For Liza, it means looking at abortion as part of family planning. Family planning is the ability to decide if when and how to become pregnant, to parent, more specifically, more traditionally family planning refers to contraceptive services. So ensuring that anyone who can become pregnant is able to use contraceptives that meet their needs so that they can delay or plan for pregnancy when the timing is right for them. And abortion fits into family planning because it's an essential component of being able to decide if someone wants to continue to be pregnant and abortion is also critical for ensuring that people can avoid the adverse health effects of an unintended pregnancy or in some cases pregnancies where people develop conditions that threaten their life or health. From where you sit, why is abortion access a public health issue, doctor Fuentes? Abortion is a public health issue for a few reasons. First, like I said, abortions just a central and essential component of the full range of sexual reproductive health, care that everybody needs to be able to live a healthy life at every phase in their life. And then if someone does become pregnant, they need to be able to decide if they want to continue that pregnancy. People may think that contraceptives that are used before someone becomes pregnant could be a solution, for example, to abortion, but they're not half of people seeking abortion care report. Using a contraceptive in the month they became pregnant. Have half, yes. Wow. Yeah. And that doesn't depend on the contraceptives don't work. We're talking about people seeking abortion care. The vast majority of people using contraceptive care are not seeking abortions in the next month, but contraceptives are not a 100% foolproof, not even sterilization. And sterilization, what do you mean by that? Somebody could have a tubal ligation or a vasectomy and it can fail. Even that can fail. Right? It's not common, but if it does, abortion needs to be part of the options for somebody. In public health, we want to make sure people have the resources to make the best choices where they're at. This is public health thinking in action. It's this move where individual health is woven into the Tapestry of the broader community. And in thinking on the community level, lies a considers abortion and issue of racial and economic justice too. That's because most people who seek an abortion are low income, almost half live below the poverty line. So any policies designed to deny, delay or impede abortion access will affect those groups disproportionately because why attempts to restrict or deny abortion care can often be overcome by people if they simply have the money and the means to do so. So people can travel out of state to avoid an abortion restriction, but for people who are struggling to make ends meet who are disproportionately likely to be low income or uninsured, which are black and brown women in this country, they are more likely to experience the delays, the denial of abortion care and the harms that go along with it. States seek to restrict and ban abortion are the least likely to offer the social supports that people need to be able to raise children. They rank among the highest states for maternal mortality and infant mortality and finally abortion is a public health issue because it's a human right. And human rights frameworks and social justice frameworks really undergird the scientific practice of public health because our goal is not simply to observe and produce knowledge, but channel it towards eliminating health inequities and ensuring that everyone has the chance to be healthy in the community where they live. Since this leak, a lot of people, for maybe the first time in their lives, because of how long roe V wade has been around are wondering what it's removal would mean for pregnant people in the U.S.. If that were to happen, how do you think it would affect those who.