The analysis showed that around 3.7 million — or 5.8% — of women of reproductive age in the U.S. live in a ‘double desert’ county that the March of Dimes considers having low access to maternity care or that is a maternity care desert, and that has no access to abortion services. Around 1.7 million women of reproductive age live in a county the March of Dimes considers a maternity care desert and do not have access to abortion.

Texas, Mississippi and Kentucky have the largest numbers of women of reproductive age living in those ‘double deserts,’ according to the analysis.

  • sharpiemarker
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    51 year ago

    You trying to tell me that the same people denying abortion access because “think of the children” are the same people who don’t care about the children? Say it isn’t so!