From the Atlanta Daily World:

Photo: Getty Images Another woman has died at the hands of Roe v. Wade’s overturn. According to ProPublica, 35-year-old Porsha Ngumezi of Texas was denied proper medical care for a miscarriage due to her state’s strict abortion ban. Ngumezi, a mother of two, suffered a miscarriage at 11 weeks on June 11, 2023 and experienced … Continued

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  • @alexc
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    42 months ago

    I hate this headline. I don’t give a shit what color this person is. They lost their lives not due to the color of their skin, but due to the beliefs of a bunch of christofacsists who think all women are property.

    • @grue
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      32 months ago

      IIRC black women suffer higher rates of medical complications to begin with for various reasons (both institutional racism related and otherwise, I think), and this criminalization of abortion exacerbates that.

      In other words, it’s bad for all women, but it’s disproportionately worse for black ones and thus in effect yet another instance of institutional racism on top of all the other problems with it.

      • @alexc
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        12 months ago

        This is a fair point, and I wish the article had made this point.