Dr Crystal M. Hayes joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Anu Manchikanti Gomez: “Alignment of Abolition Medicine With Reproductive Justice.”

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.

Algorithms use race as an epidemiological shorthand, but clinically influential historical, social, and cultural determinants of health are still sources of variability.

Clinicians should consider how structural and individual forces predispose OB/GYNs to discredit patients’ testimonies.

Los médicos deben considerar cómo las fuerzas estructurales e individuales predisponen a los obstetras y ginecólogos a desacreditar los testimonios de los pacientes.

More cesarean deliveries among Black and Hispanic women in the United States has long demonstrated racial inequity in obstetrical care.

El aumento de los partos por cesárea entre mujeres negras e hispanas en los Estados Unidos ha demostrado desde hace mucho tiempo la inequidad racial en la atención obstétrica.