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Summary: The Decriminalization Of Abortion

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You mentioned that mostly half of women of color received all the legal abortions. I just want to add some statistic that Davis explains on her article. During several years preceding the decriminalization of abortions in New York state, 80% of the illegal abortions were involved Black and Puerto Rican women. Also, just you said, immediately afterward, women of color received about 50% of the legal abortions. This is not because they have more freedom or reproductive rights than the white women, but it rather shows how miserable living and working condition they were in. Because they do not want their children to have the same miserable lives, they chose to terminate their pregnancy. Women of color and women in working class had to fight against
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