Facing higher teen pregnancy and maternal mortality rates, Black women will largely bear the brunt of abortion limits

An examination room in Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio on June 14, 2022. (Credit: Kylie Cooper/The Texas Tribune)

Linda Goler Blount, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, says she grew up with the ability to make choices about her body because her mother’s generation fought for the right to abortion care.

She laments the same won’t be true for the Black children who will mature into womanhood without that access and worries about the effects that looming abortion restrictions across the country will have on them.