Abortion Criminalization: A Public Health Crisis Rooted in White Supremacy

doi:10.2105/AJPH.2022.307014

. 2022 Nov;112(11):1662-1667.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307014.

Abortion Criminalization: A Public Health Crisis Rooted in White Supremacy

Taylor Riley¹, Yasaman Zia¹, Goleen Samari¹, Mienah Z Sharif¹

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¹ Taylor Riley and Yasaman Zia are with the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle. Goleen Samari is with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Mienah Z. Sharif is with the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, and the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, University of California, Los Angeles.

PMID: 36223577
PMCID: PMC9558193
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307014

Abortion Criminalization: A Public Health Crisis Rooted in White Supremacy

Taylor Riley et al. Am J Public Health. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;112(11):1662-1667.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307014.

Authors

Taylor Riley¹, Yasaman Zia¹, Goleen Samari¹, Mienah Z Sharif¹

Affiliation

¹ Taylor Riley and Yasaman Zia are with the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle. Goleen Samari is with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Mienah Z. Sharif is with the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, and the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, University of California, Los Angeles.

PMID: 36223577
PMCID: PMC9558193
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307014

Abstract

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White supremacy. In this essay, we highlight how antiabortion policies uphold White supremacy and offer concrete strategies for addressing abortion criminalization in structural racism measures and public health research and practice. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(11):1662-1667. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307014).

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