Kay Steiger talks with Nancy Northup about how nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, the battle to ensure reproductive rights has gone local.
What other challenges to reproductive health care will we see this year?
There’s going to be a continued attempt to restrict private insurance plans from covering abortion services. We also expect to continue to see biased counseling laws, mandatory ultrasound laws, as well as unnecessary burdens states keep putting on the providers of abortion services [also known as targeted restrictions on abortion providers, or TRAP laws, which can include everything from added paperwork to restrictions on how facilities that provide abortions can be built] and thus block women’s ability to access abortion services.
