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'People die like that': Native Americans face serious barriers in accessing care.
In Montana, where Native Americans comprise 6.7 percent of the population, Indigenous people die a generation younger than their white neighbors.
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Abortion has always been a natural part of pregnancy in Native culture, where women are viewed as sacred and, before colonization, had sovereignty over their bodies….
...“Self-managed abortion is traditional,” said Melissa Rose, who is Akwesasne Mohawk and from the tribe’s territory in northern New York and Canada. ...“We’ve only been a handful of generations separated from this being the norm. … And in some families, this knowledge has been really carefully protected and passed down and, luckily, we have all of that still.”
In Indigenous culture, unlike the western debate, there is no conflict between managing a pregnancy or ending one, she said….
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The abortion provider who became the most hated woman in New York.
In nineteenth-century New York, abortion was shrouded in secrecy and stigma. But, for Madame Restell (Ann Trow Summers Lohman ) there was no such thing as bad press.