Right to Life, Mortality, and Poverty Rates

GOTV believes firmly in forgiveness, and in respect for opinions with which we disagree.  But we also recognize the need to differentiate those from simply excusing for expediency's sake.  That's what caught our eye about the info below.

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, today released a staff analysis detailing efforts by Republicans to ban abortion or to impose restrictions that would erect barriers to care. Those restrictions include congressional Republicans’ push to enact a national abortion ban.

Let's quote from and expand on the analysis.

Republicans have no intention of stopping until abortion is banned in every state. In this Congress alone, Republicans have introduced more than 50 bills that would ban abortion or impose barriers to care nationwide, and even prosecute doctors for providing care to their patients. A nationwide abortion ban directly threatens the health and economic security of nearly 64 million women of reproductive age across the country.

Between 2017 and 2021, Republican governors signed into law approximately 127 laws banning abortion or erecting barriers to care. Approximately 31 million women of reproductive age live in the states that have enacted these bans and restrictions.

Here are more of the key findings from the Committee’s analysis.

• Since 2021, Republicans in Congress have introduced 52 bills to ban or restrict abortion nationwide, including 16 bills that call for criminal prosecution of doctors and nurses and four that target the ability to travel to obtain an abortion. 179 House Republicans support banning abortion at only six weeks—before most women even know they’re pregnant. 167 House Republicans support legislation that would define personhood as beginning at conception, in effect banning all abortions.

• A national abortion ban would take away reproductive freedom from roughly twice the number of individuals impacted by current state restrictions.

• A 2021 study estimated that a national ban on abortion could increase overall maternal mortality by 24% and increase maternal mortality for Black women by 39%.

• States with the most severe abortion restrictions have the worst maternal and infant outcomes, larger gender wage gaps, and higher poverty rates for women and children.