"Pricing American Women Out Of Abortion, One Restriction At A Time"

a receipt for "the full price of an abortion"

What people don't often realize about restrictions on abortion is that they create real hurdles for people trying to access them. Demanding a pregnant person take 24hrs to "think it over" (as if they haven't thought it over already?!) means two days missing work. Add in the scarcity of clinics in areas that aren't densely populated, and you suddenly have real travel time to worry about...

This article provides a phenomenal survey of the issues involved; I highly encourage a read-through.

A ThinkProgress examination of the potential fees that could be accrued by two archetypal Wisconsin women found that the process of obtaining an abortion could total up to $1,380 for a low-income single mother saddled with charges related to gas, a hotel stay, childcare, and taking time off work. For a middle-income woman living comfortably in a city with no children and public transit options to the clinic, meanwhile, those fees dropped to $593.

"Pricing American Women Out Of Abortion, One Restriction At A Time"

In cahoots,
~Sasha