Dismal Picture of Health Care for Pregnant Inmates
In April of this year I posted two articles on the difficulties of obtaining an abortion if you are a woman prisoner. My information was taken from a Web posting by Diana Kasdan, in which she discussed a survey of incarcerated women, by Sufrin, Creinin, and Chang, as well as providing her own commentary. Kasdan is a Staff Attorney who works for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. Today I will be talking about the general health care needs of pregnant women in prisons, with more information on their access to abortions; the source is the same Kasdan article.
In her article, Kasdan reports that an investigative piece, which appeared in the Texas Observer, in late February, stated the following: "For pregnant women in immigration detention facilities, it is virtually impossible to obtain an abortion." Extensive interviews with researchers and advocates revealed that detainees who became pregnant due to the fact that they were raped while crossing the border, encountered huge obstacles when they went looking for information about abortions and services.
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