Maternal care deserts overlap with lack of abortion access, analysis shows
The analysis showed that around 3.7 million — or 5.8% — of women of reproductive age in the U.S. live in a ‘double desert’ county that the March of Dimes considers having low access to maternity care or that is a maternity care desert, and that has no access to abortion services. Around 1.7 million women of reproductive age live in a county the March of Dimes considers a maternity care desert and do not have access to abortion.
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Texas, Mississippi and Kentucky have the largest numbers of women of reproductive age living in those ‘double deserts,’ according to the analysis.