{"id":53746,"date":"2022-01-13T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=53746"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:44:49","slug":"what-will-happen-to-womens-healthcare-if-abortions-are-banned","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/what-will-happen-to-womens-healthcare-if-abortions-are-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will Happen to Women\u2019s Healthcare if Abortions Are Banned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reliasmedia.com\/articles\/148990-what-will-happen-to-womens-healthcare-if-abortions-are-banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Relias Media<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January 13, 2022 \u2014 When most people no longer can seek safe abortion care in their home regions and states, there will be an increase in maternal deaths and injuries, both from unsafe abortions and from unsafe pregnancies that should have been ended because they risked the woman\u2019s health, several reproductive health advocates and researchers say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s clear in countries where abortion is illegal or criminalized that women suffer more complications of pregnancy and higher mortality rates from unsafe abortions,\u201d says&nbsp;Mimi Zieman, MD, author of&nbsp;<em>Managing Contraception<\/em>&nbsp;and president of SageMed LLC in Atlanta. \u201cIn this country, the most unfortunate and unjust consequence of restricting abortion is that women of lower income and women of color will suffer more than women who have the means to travel to other states and countries to get care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abortions will continue in a post-<em>Roe<\/em>&nbsp;America, but women\u2019s safety will be jeopardized, says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/staff\/staff_type\/eva-lathrop\/\">Eva Lathrop<\/a>, MD, MPH, global medical director of Population Services International (PSI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s crucial to provide safe abortion services,\u201d Lathrop says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To view the full article, visit <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reliasmedia.com\/articles\/148990-what-will-happen-to-womens-healthcare-if-abortions-are-banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Relias Media&#8217;s<\/a><\/em> s\u00edtio Web.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"health-area":[],"capabilities-and-cross-cutting":[],"class_list":["post-53746","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/53746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=53746"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=53746"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=53746"},{"taxonomy":"health-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/health-area?post=53746"},{"taxonomy":"capabilities-and-cross-cutting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/capabilities-and-cross-cutting?post=53746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}