The Quickie: Impact of Dobbs Decision Falls Primarily on Latinas

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In today’s Quickie: New data shows that the Dobbs decision has harmed Latinas, particularly those that are Black, Indigenous, and AAPI, more than any other group, and Laphonza Butler is sworn in as senator to California.

IMPACT OF DOBBS DECISION FALLS PRIMARILY ON LATINAS — ESPECIALLY BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND AAPI LATINAS: A new analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families, in collaboration with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, confirms the harms of the Dobbs decision on Latina communities.

The study, featured in NBC News, highlights that Latinas, particularly Black, Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and multiracial Latinas, are the largest group of women of color to be living in places impacted by state abortion bans:

• Nearly 6.7 million Latinas — 43 percent of all Latinas ages 15-49 — live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion. They represent the largest group of women of color impacted by current or likely state bans.
• Nearly half of all Latinas who live in these 26 states are already mothers, including 852,800 mothers of children under the age of three.
• More than 3 million Latinas living in these states are economically insecure. 
• Close to half of all Latina veterans in the U.S. live in states that have or are very likely to ban abortion after Dobbs.
• Nearly 43 percent of disabled Latinas live in these 26 states. 
• More than 1 million Latinas who live in states that have or are likely to ban abortions report not speaking English at all or not speaking it well.

Read the brief here and, in Spanish, here.
 

SENATOR LAPHONZA BUTLER TAKES OFFICE: Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris swore in Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA), who is now only the third Black woman senator in U.S. history. Senator Butler is also the first openly LGBTQ+ senator of color in the chamber. As the former president of EMILY’s List, Sen. Butler is a staunch advocate for abortion rights. Planned Parenthood President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson celebrated her appointment and swearing in.