Rheya Spigner reports on how a history of redlining has placed communities of color more at risk for hazardous living conditions and how climate change can make it worse.
According to Dr. Claudia Baquet, a retired professor and dean of the School of Medicine and Health Policy at the University of Maryland, health disparities are differences in the rate
Frederick Isasi, the executive director of Families USA, called the Mississippi case – known as Dobbs v. Jackson – unconstitutional and an orchestrated attack on the ability of women to make their own decisions about their health and their reproductive freedom. “By asking the Supreme Court to gut or even overturn Roe v Wade, it will deny women abortion services and fundamentally jeopardize the lives and health of women in the state,” Isasi asserted.