Alison Gemmill is an assistant professor in the department of population, family and reproductive health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and associate director of the Hopkins Population Center. She is a demographer and perinatal epidemiologist who studies how structural and environmental stressors impact childbearing decisions and pregnancy outcomes, and how these factors exacerbate health disparities. She holds a Ph.D. and M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Antiabortion Heartbeat Bills Cause Immense Suffering
The rise in infant mortality in Texas shows that in states with strict abortion bans, forcing people to carry nonviable pregnancies to term codifies cruelty and unnecessary pain