A letter to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, authored by legal scholars from the SIA Legal Team (now If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice) and the CUNY School of Law, concerning “three issues that converge to affect the reproductive lives of women living in extreme poverty: limits on cash assistance for children born into families already receiving public benefits, prohibition on public insurance (Medicaid) coverage of most abortions, and criminalization of self-induced abortion.”

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