These remarks were offered as public testimony to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The ironic timing of the closure of a 42-year-old birth center on the heels of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade—a 49-year old law of the land protecting reproductive health access—is not lost on me, nor should it be lost on Beth Israel Lahey Health leadership or DPH, either.
While an abortion rights organizer and activist may seem like an unlikely ally in the fight to save the North Shore Birth Center—the ONLY freestanding birth center in Eastern Massachusetts—abortion care is as much a critical aspect of maternal and fetal medicine as labor and delivery. The closure of a birth center is an act of reproductive injustice. Let me say that again: the closure of OUR birth center is an act of reproductive injustice.
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