Rachael Lorenzo works to address reproductive health disparities in Native communities. In 2018, they founded Indigenous Women Rising, a fund that provides financial help for Native people seeking an abortion.
Any plan to open clinics on reservations would be fraught with legal, financial, and political hurdles, Indigenous abortion advocates said. And they wondered why many people now asking about the possibility didn’t seem interested in health care access there before abortion rights were threatened nationwide.
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Rachael Lorenzo started hearing the questions several weeks ago from strangers on Twitter and reporters seeking interviews: Since Native American tribes are sovereign nations, with their own laws, could they offer abortion services on Native land within states that may soon outlaw abortion? And would they?