For decades, many women of color, particularly those with low incomes, had little control over their family planning care. Now, a White House effort aims to give patients more choices as abortion care evaporates, but patients remain wary of providers.
JACKSON, Miss. â Two years ago, after an emergency cesarean section at a Mississippi hospital, Sherika Trader was denied a tubal ligation. Trader, now 33, was told that to have her tubes tied, she had to have a second child or a husbandâs permission, even though she wasnât married. Jasymin Shepherd had heavy menstrual cycles because of a birth control pill prescribed after the birth of her son .