Equitable access to healthcare, including the full spectrum of reproductive healthcare options, is imperative for the safety, agency, and well-being of trafficking survivors.
Women of color, especially Black women, face persistent healthcare inequities in the US, including limited access to reproductive healthcare. Black and brown women have disproportionately higher maternal mortality rates. Their pain is frequently disregarded by doctors. We know that these inequities make them significantly more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by family, employers, and traffickers.
Traffickers often take control over the bodies and choices of their victims. Traffickers limit access to mental health care, contraception, doctors, prenatal care, and abortion care. Survivors with disabilities are targeted, and made dependent on their trafficker. Abuse causes medical and mental health conditions, giving traffickers more vulnerabilities to exploit. The cycle keeps making it harder for survivors to escape.
The Trump Administration’s demolition of abortion access and affordable healthcare plays right into the hands of traffickers, making it harder for survivors to get what they need to escape. When healthcare costs increase, providers and hospitals close their doors, abortion care is criminalized, and health insurance costs multiply, survivors are left desperate and isolated. Traffickers pose as their only hope.
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