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Immigrants are skipping repro health care; afraid of being deported

When Alejandra Pablos found out she was pregnant, she was in the middle of a legal battle to stay in this country.

Initially, she thought about continuing with the pregnancy, she told Vox. But the uncertainty of her immigration status was too great. She’d been in deportation proceedings since 2011, and now it was 2017. As Pablos put it, “this is the Trump era.”

“Even though you might be ready and you would love to start a family,” she said, “I don’t know how I can do that when the state can take away my baby.”

Pablos, an activist who lived in Virginia at the time, ultimately got an abortion. Her story shows just one of the ways that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and rhetoric are affecting the way people build families and take care of their own health.

Continue reading here, courtesy of Anna North at Vox.

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