The Consequences of “Abortion Exile”

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Published on Friday, 08 July 2016 14:30
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Open Society Foundations Last week, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that would have closed half the state’s abortion clinics, the reasoning behind the ruling was solid.

After all, forcing women to journey great distances for abortion services disproportionately harms young women, low-income women, women with disabilities, and women with precarious immigration status.

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But there’s another repercussion of making women travel for abortions that’s harder to quantify.


Learn about how this practice of temporarily banishing women from society amounts to a form of social exclusion.

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