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Dear Friend,
In the wake of today’s news, I wanted to be sure you heard this from me personally, both as the President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA (MSF-USA), and as a doctor: Safe abortion care is essential health care.
At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we know that unsafe abortion is a major cause of maternal mortality worldwide. Some seven million people around the world are hospitalized every year with complications from unsafe abortion. Some will be permanently disabled.
When women, girls, and pregnant people do not have access to safe abortion care, they often find other ways to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. I have treated people who have undergone risky procedures because they felt they had no other choice. I have witnessed firsthand the unbearable pain and suffering that no one should be forced to endure.
As an international medical humanitarian organization, MSF provides safe abortion care as an essential part of our comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services. While we do not currently run medical operations in the US, we see the devastating consequences in countries around the world where people do not have access to safe and legal abortion.
Where abortion is most restricted, it is more likely to be unsafe. Where abortion is legal and safe services are available, death and disability are reduced. Restricted access to care often disproportionately affects people of color, people living in poverty, and people in remote or rural areas.
It is shocking to me to see the US moving backward just as many other countries are moving forward to expand access to safe abortion care.
Dr. Africa Stewart, President
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA
— Dr. Stewart is an OB-GYN from Atlanta. She has completed five surgical assignments with MSF since 2011, with a focus on emergency reproductive care.
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