"Indigenous people have been uniquely affected by the end of Roe."

“Indigenous people have been uniquely affected by the end of Roe,” write Noel Lyn Smith and Maddy Keyes on this International Indigenous People’s Day, in their article, End of Roe v. Wade has made a bad situation for Indigenous communities much worse.

Across the country, some 2 million Native Americans live in the 20 states with laws on the books banning abortion at 18 weeks of pregnancy or earlier, according to a News21 analysis.

“There are clinics closing, providers moving out of those states that we have served or serve, and so we’re seeing more people need to travel from very rural states in order to get abortion care,” Lorenzo said.

Add into the mix disproportionate rates of sexual assault and unintended pregnancy, a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, high rates of maternal mortality, and poor access to preventative care and contraception, and the end of Roe has made a bad situation much worse."

Sadly, Indigenous people are often generally overlooked when discussing reproductive rights and the effects that abortion bans are having on pregnant people in the States.

That’s why it important for you to, and I urge you to do so, read the full article.