someone left a comment on my blog for Choice post from last year, and so I thought, perhaps I’ll write one for this year as well. since leaving blogging several months ago, life has been swell, and busy. I hope you are all quite well.
to my american friends: Happy Roe Day! 35 years since Roe was decided, and jsut look at how far you’ve come! White middle class to upper class women can still sometimes get abortions in some places in the US! AWESOME.
my message today is very simple: there are alternative funding groups out there who are able to help women who cannot afford to pay for abortion services. Access to abortion is a huge problem for women, and I want to make sure people out there know that there are options available to help defray some of the costs of obtaining abortion services. they are mostly grassroots groups who are committed to reproductive rights for women, and they can help. perhaps you can’t afford to travel out of your town or city to get to an abortion provider, or to take the time off work, or to make sure your kids have a sitter while you go out of town for a couple of days to obtain the services you need. Abortions are expensive, but the cost of service is not the only cost associated with access to abortion. it’s important to know that there are some options out there.
please, go to this website: National Network of Abortion Funds. They have a list there of alternative funding for abortion, you can search by city so it’s really easy. There is help available.
peace!
Good to here from you again.
Steve
Didn’t know that access to abortion would be so difficult in the US. I mean, I know that abortion is still a hot-button issue in the US – which in itself is puzzling.
But its legal there & everything – and its still not easy to find a place to get a fetus aborted?
Choice is important, but the problems go way beyond availability to get the abortion – a chance to avoid an unwanted pregnancy is even made difficult for anyone in the lower middle class and down.
On the other end of things, both my mother and my best friend/sister were actually pressured to get abortions by the health organizations the went to. The whole thing is all screwed up. (1986, my mother was unmarried and suffered from depression, and my father was young and living in a halfway house. They are now married 21 years, happy, and successful nurses. My friend is struggling sometimes, as a single mother, but she is an amazing mother and strong woman, and I know her future will also be fantastic.)