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For Low-Income Women, Lack of Coverage Leads to Anxiety, Unnecessary Delays in Terminating Pregnancies

By Elisabeth Sowecke, DC Abortion Fund, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)

July 22, 2009 - 7:00am

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Low-income women--even many ostensibly covered by Medicaid--face numerous obstacles to obtaining early, safe abortion services, leading to higher costs and later abortions than need be the case. The DC Abortion Fund is struggling to close the gap.


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House Committee Votes to Allow DC to Fund Abortions for Low-Income Women; Bill Moves Soon to Full House Vote

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

July 7, 2009 - 10:04pm

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The House Appropriations Committee tonight voted down the "Tiahrt-Davis" Amendment, an effort by anti-choice forces in Congress to reinsert a rider into the District of Columbia's federal funding allocation that would have prohibited local funds from being used to help low-income women access medically necessary abortions.

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