Abortion is essential.
—are necessary nonprofit organizations that provide financial, logical and emotional assistance to low-income women who aren’t able to afford the cost of an abortion. Though an abortion fund is unlikely to be able to cover all the costs of an abortion, they determine need on a case-by-case basis and connect women to resources that could help them access even more money.
And in light of the pandemic, they’re needed now more than ever: Since the onset of the pandemic, abortion funds have reported a major uptick in calls, especially from patients who must commute long distances to get abortions, typically traveling from abortion-hostile states.Since the beginning of the pandemic, women in Alabama, Texas, Iowa, Louisiana, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee
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