The Supreme Court decision ending the constitutional right to abortion has highlighted the inhumanity of attempting to legislate and restrict potentially life-saving care. As a Latina abortion physician, I see this every day. Each day brings another harrowing story of someone denied the abortion they need.
People who want to ban abortion want you to believe that this conversation can be reduced to an arbitrary number: a number of weeks after which abortion becomes illegal. But the complexities of our lives — particularly of pregnancies — can’t be captured in black and white. Existing in the gray area are people’s hopes, dreams, families, dignity and health. They are things that politicians should never attempt to control.
