‘They forced me to carry my baby to the end’: women of color on being denied abortion

Anya Cook and Samantha Casiano were forced to navigate pregnancies with complications in post-Roe America

Pregnancy has long been riskier than abortion in America. Around 650-750 US women die during pregnancy each year, the highest maternal death rate in the industrialized world.

Comparatively, very few women die from abortion or suffer complications: two women died from abortion complications in 2018. So, when Roe v Wade was overturned last summer, there were fears that deaths and complications from pregnancy would shoot up - particularly among women of color.