Ana Maria Rosato talks w/Dr Morris on Communities of Color and Access to Doctors

In the Spring of 2019, the Georgia Republican-controlled legislature passed its abortion ban by a margin of TWO votes. The audacity of Republicans to tell a woman or a couple whether or when to start or expand a family! What became immediately apparent throughout the debate was the failure to the public debate to focus on women and our right to decide for ourselves. After all, self-determination is a core American value.

In this video, I interviewed Dr. Morris, is a generalist OB/GYN whose patients are mainly lower income families within communities of color. Listen to what Dr. Morris tells us about communities of color and access to doctors.

“Communities of color or lower socio-economic status, a lot of patients don’t have the same, don’t have super convenient access to their doctor. So, they may say, oh, I think I’m pregnant, and they’ll call for an appointment, and they’ll say, great, we’ll see you in three months.

“So, that, right there, they have no access to a doctor. They don’t have any opportunity to have a conversation about their options, if it’s safe to move forward with the pregnancy. They can have new developments, you know, they may have not even been to a doctor for five years, you know, between their last pregnancy and this one.” — Dr. Morris

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As the ACLU of Georgia’s communications director, Ana Maria Rosato produced the ACLU of Georgia’s 36-part video series titled “Stop. The. Bans. American Physicians Speak Out.”

The series focuses on the impact that abortion bans have on women and their families as well as the impact on the practice of medicine. Ana Maria interviewed physicians — the experts on women’s healthcare — to discuss what happens to their practice and women’s healthcare when politicians decide how to end a pregnancy rather than leaving those decisions to the individual women and the people those women trust.

Ana Maria interviewed 19 physicians from diverse disciplines: obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, psychiatry, psychology, internal medicine, maternal fetal medicine, and oncology. Ana Maria’s perspective: “When it comes to reproductive healthcare, women and couples must be free to decide whether and when to start or extend a family. Period.”

#LetHerDecide

For more information on the ACLU of Georgia’s important work to protect reproductive freedom, go to https://acluga.org.
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Video credit: Another Jones Production https://ajproduction.org