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How do women pay for abortions?
REFERENCES
- Most abortion patients have health coverage<
- Source: Jones RK, Finer LB and Singh S, Characteristics of U.S. abortion patients, 2008, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2010.
- But most women pay out of pocket for their abortion
- Source: Jones RK, Finer LB and Singh S, Characteristics of U.S. abortion patients, 2008, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2010.
- In 2008, the average cost of a first-trimester abortion was $470
- Source: Jones RK and Kooistra K, Abortion incidence and access to services in the United States, 2008, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011, 43(1):41–50.
- Lower-income women are more likely to be uninsured
- Source: DeNavas-Walt C, Proctor BD and Smith JC, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-243, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.
- Only 17 states have policies to use their own funds to cover abortions for women on Medicaid
- Source: Guttmacher Institute, State funding of abortion under Medicaid, State Policies in Brief (as of December 2012), 2012, <http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_SFAM.pdf>, accessed Jan. 7, 2013.
These graphics were made possible by a grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.
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