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This week’s newsletter highlights a crucial mandate of health justice: recognizing our shared humanity. First, severe reproductive restrictions negatively impact the lives of women and birthing people. Next, justice-involved people need better access to healthcare services. Then, investigative reporting from STAT reveals the coerced sterilization of Black women with sickle cell disease. Finally, the inhumane conditions of factory farms place animals and workers at risk.
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Reproductive restrictions, including abortion bans, have extracted a heavy toll on the United States. States with these restrictions have increased rates of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, greater anxiety and depression among women of childbearing age, and poorer performing economies as women are pushed out of the workforce. Read more...
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In the United States, nearly two million adults are incarcerated or otherwise detained in federal, state, local, and tribal systems…. Without access to adequate healthcare, including mental healthcare, these individuals are unlikely to receive the care needed to survive or to heal before reentering society. Read more...
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In late May of 2024, STAT’s investigative reporting shed light on the stories of seven women with sickle cell disease (SCD) “who reported being sterilized with questionable consent.” STAT’s interviews included physicians and other medical professionals, who said “they’ve directly heard about dozens of other instances.” Read more…
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The intersection of animal and human wellbeing makes it imperative for animal welfare advocates to build solidarity with workers to achieve liberation for both human and nonhuman animals. Read more…
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