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With abortion in jeopardy, minority women have most to lose

FILE - State Rep. Zakiya Summers, D-Jackson, speaks in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on March 30, 2021. Summers, a mother herself, said it would be a "travesty for women," especially for low-income women of color, if access to legal abortion were to disappear. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Mississippi Republican Attorney General Lynn Fitch speaks to an audience in Philadelphia, Miss., on July 29, 2021. Fitch supports abortion restrictions, including the state law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks — the one the state used before the United States Supreme Court, to challenge Roe v. Wade. If you are Black or Hispanic in a state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press, if the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, minority women will bear the brunt of it. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - The Mississippi director for Planned Parenthood Southeast, Tyler Harden, tells an audience of reproductive rights supporters that efforts to limit abortion access are "just another form of oppression" for women of color, at a rally in Smith Park Jackson, Miss., on Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Tanya Britton, a former president of Pro-Life Mississippi, calls out through a barrier around Mississippi's only abortion clinic on Nov. 30, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. Britton often travels from her home in Tupelo, Miss., to pray outside the clinic and to try to persuade women not to go inside to end their pregnancies. Britton says it's a tragedy that the number of Black babies aborted since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision would equal the population of several large cities. She also says people are too casual about terminating pregnancies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Tanya Britton, a former president of Pro-Life Mississippi, peers through a barrier around Mississippi's only abortion clinic on Nov. 30, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. Britton often travels from her home in Tupelo, Miss., to pray outside the clinic and to try to persuade women not to go inside to end their pregnancies. Britton says it's a tragedy that the number of Black babies aborted since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision would equal the population of several large cities. She also says people are too casual about terminating pregnancies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Shannon Brewer, Jackson Women's Health Organization director, sits in her office at the Jackson, Miss., clinic on May 19, 2021. She believes politicians advocating to end abortion are also trying to eliminate resources for single mothers. As a Black woman and a mother of six, she said she understands the experiences of women seeking abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File, File) FILE - The Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic, a state-licensed abortion clinic in Jackson, Miss., is seen on May 19, 2021. Also known as "The Pink House," it is shrouded with a black tarp so that its clients may enter in privacy. If you are Black or Hispanic in a state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press, if the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, minority women will bear the brunt of it. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Amanda Furdge talks about the contrast of easily finding abortion services when she lived in Illinois and the difficulty of finding the services after she moved back to Mississippi, which has only one abortion clinic, during an interview in Clinton, Miss., on Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - Amanda Furdge talks about the contrast of easily finding abortion services when she lived in Illinois and the difficulty of finding the services after she moved back to Mississippi, which has only one abortion clinic, during an interview in Clinton, Miss., on Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
With abortion in jeopardy, minority women have most to lose