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“‘I’m really f—ing angry. And that is an uncomfortable place to be, because of the historical women tropes that so often have been used to … silence and diminish women and our voices.’ ”
That was former first daughter Chelsea Clinton responding to a question about her thoughts almost a year after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 court case that had granted women the constitutional right to abortion for almost 50 years.
Clinton was speaking with NBC’s Kristen Welker at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Thursday, when she was asked to offer her reflections after the SCOTUS Dobbs decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade one year ago Saturday.
Clinton, who has become a global health advocate while serving as the vice chair of both the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, added that “we know women have died” without access to reproductive health care, including safe, legal abortions.
Since Roe was overturned, some 14 states have made many or most abortions illegal, with Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Idaho among the states with total bans in effect.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that, in the first nine months after Roe was overturned, there were about 26,000 fewer abortions in the U.S. within the formal medical system — a decrease of about 3%, according to data from WeCount, an abortion-data project sponsored by the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion rights.
And a December 2022 report from the Commonwealth Fund, an independent research organization that focuses on health policy, found that the states that banned, were planning to ban or had otherwise restricted abortion had higher maternal and infant-mortality rates than states where abortion was more easily accessible. In fact, the maternal death rates were 62% higher in the states that banned or limited abortions. And fetal deaths or infant deaths in the first week of life occurred at a 15% higher rate, on average, than in states with abortion access, the report also found.
“We have moved forward again to a time in which we are making women more vulnerable,” Clinton added.
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The clip led Clinton’s name to trend on Twitter throughout the day Friday, with many people passing around this clip.
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