In March 2023, five women filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas after being denied abortion care, despite experiencing pregnancy complications that threatened their lives. Two months later, eight additional women joined the case as new plaintiffs. The lawsuit,
Zurawski v. State of Texas, is the first to challenge a state ban since Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022. Women have long spoken out about their abortion stories, and the lack of access to reproductive health care in the U.S., but we rarely hear from the men who are also impacted.
That's why
Men's Health reached out to two of the plaintiffs' husbands—Josh Zurawski, 36, and Jason Miller, 36 (both of whom wanted their children)—to have a long-overdue conversation about how abortion and abortion bans impact men, too. Neither of these guys wanted to be here (this is the first time Miller has spoken to the press), but they felt it was imperative to join their wives in sharing their stories, and how these laws will affect other families like theirs.
In March 2023, five women filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas after being denied abortion care, despite experiencing pregnancy complications that threatened their lives. Two months later, eight additional women joined the case as new plaintiffs. The lawsuit, Zurawski v. State of Texas, is the first to challenge a state ban since Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022. Women have long spoken out about their abortion stories, and the lack of access to reproductive health care in the U.S., but we rarely hear from the men who are also impacted.
That's why Men's Health reached out to two of the plaintiffs' husbands—Josh Zurawski, 36, and Jason Miller, 36 (both of whom wanted their children)—to have a long-overdue conversation about how abortion and abortion bans impact men, too. Neither of these guys wanted to be here (this is the first time Miller has spoken to the press), but they felt it was imperative to join their wives in sharing their stories, and how these laws will affect other families like theirs. |
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