Funds are cutting aid for women seeking abortions as costs rise

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Source: ABC News/AP

September 25, 2024, 8:46 AM


Organizations that help pay abortion costs are capping how much they can help as travel costs rise and the wave of “rage giving” that fueled them two years ago has subsided.

Abortion funds, which have operated across the U.S. for decades, in many cases as volunteer groups, ramped up their capacity fast after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending a national right to abortion. Donations rolled in from supporters who saw the groups as key to maintaining abortion access as most Republican-controlled states implemented bans.

The expansion of the funds and increasing access to abortion pills are major reasons the number of abortions has risen slightly despite bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy in 14 states and after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant, in another four.

But the funds have found that even with record budgets, it’s not enough to fill all the gaps between the cost of obtaining abortions and what women seeking them can afford as they have to travel farther for legal procedures. The National Abortion Federation, which helps people seeking abortions across the country, used to cover half the cost of the abortion for callers who couldn't afford it. Since July, it’s pulled back to 30%.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/funds-cutting-aid-women-seeking-abortions-costs-rise-114071982

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1. So sad.

I hope there are private funds that can help more. Back in the day, there were a bunch of my school-mates who got together and helped our friends get abortions. We lived in the Bible belt and most parents weren;t helpful back then. They'd send you to an unwed girls home, where you would be controlled 100% by the people that ran the place and were often known for abusing the young women. So we'd chip in what we could to send the friend to NY where abortions were legal. We'd researched and found a Planned Parenthood place in NYC that would work with us and we went to that well 8 times until Roe passed. I hope things like that are still happening.