Health, dignity, and family life should never depend on wealth. Through a socialist lens, the abortion disparities shown here call attention to the material pressures facing Black women and other marginalized communities: economic insecurity, unequal access to care, and inadequate support for raising children.
In a capitalist health system, pharmaceutical corporations earn from drug sales, private insurers seek profits from social services, and for-profit medical facilities earn from paid services. Abortion also undermines the poor and working class African American voting power potential as well.
These CDC figures document disparities among African American in comparison to White women.
Healthcare justice demands for accessible health care, just wages, affordable housing, childcare, and the freedom to make reproductive decisions without economic coercion. Communities deserve the resources to raise healthy families.