Ray From Cleveland
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I guess I wasn't clear. The 10 week rule is an FDA regulation on the use of medical abortions; that is abortion pills which is about half of all abortions. In a medial abortion, the woman is sent home with pills and the clinc monitors her progress. The cost is typically $500 to $1,000. After 10 weeks the procedure becomes more complicated and cost is more, up to several thousand dollars.
For those with low income, about 75% of those who seek abortions , they are likely to rely on Medicaid but being a state program, it will not pay for out of state abortions. So even it those with low or no income make it out of state, how are they going to pay for it? This is why I believe most of those below the poverty level are going to rely on home abortions using whatever devices or medication that are available.
For those that aren't low income, they will just travel out state and either use their insurance or pay out of pocket.
As with so many things, it is the poor that will suffer. That's the way it was before Roe. The poor would us coat hangers or whatever is available. Middle and upper income families would send the their daughters to visit Aunt Sally, a little rest home where an abortion will become medically necessary and local authorities, look the other way.
NEW RESEARCH FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND IN OUR OWN VOICE SHOWS THAT HALF OF WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE COULD LOSE ACCESS TO LEGAL ABORTION
Get the latest news and developments in Planned Parenthood's efforts as they work to provide quality women's health care and sex education in the U.S.www.plannedparenthood.org
Medicaid is a federal/state program funded by both.