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Just Go Balls Out, Already

March 30, 2011 - 12:43pm (Print)

Subject: Do you know of any resources for this woman?

"This woman," who has no car, lives in a South Dakota town a 12-hour round trip drive from the nearest abortion provider.

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Taking Stock: Some Choice Reflections at the Year End

by Frances Kissling

December 19, 2010 - 5:44pm (Print)

Is the pro-choice movement doing enough to ensure access for poor women? Ask yourself what more you can do, and act on at least some of the recommendations included here.

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Feminist Health Center Closes After Thirty Years, What Does It Mean for Women?

by Amie Newman

November 18, 2010 - 10:46pm (Print)

One of Washington State's last remaining independent feminist health centers closes after 30 years. But feminist health care providers vow to keep fighting - with help.

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Supreme Court Dog And Pony Show

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

July 19, 2009 - 10:45pm (Print)

All about the cirucs that is the Sonia Sotomayor hearings. Also: Heather Busby talks about running an abortion fund.

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Unintended Pregnancy Plunges Women in Pacific Northwest into Economic Crisis

by Sarah Wilhelm

July 8, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Increasing numbers of Pacific Northwest women experiencing an unintended pregnancy are finding themselves in an economic crisis of their own.

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Women's Medical Fund Helps Where Government Fails

by Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check

June 23, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

It's not even 10:00 a.m. at Philadelphia's abortion fund and I'm already overwhelmed. But the counselors are cheerful, eager to do what they can for low-income women who can't afford abortions in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Surge in Need Taxes Abortion Funds

by Leila Darabi and Constance DeCherney, New York Abortion Access Fund

April 15, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The economic downturn, and the accompanying surge in need for assistance, is wiping out local grassroots abortion funds.

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When The Money Runs Out: Abortion Funds Struggling

by Lindsey Oliver, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project

January 14, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

It's clear the recession is having a disproportionate impact on the women abortion funds serve. Our intake forms are filled with women saying they have lost their jobs, been evicted, or are living on the streets.

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How to Push Abortion Out of Women's Reach in Four Days or Less

by Anna Clark, RH Reality Check

November 18, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)

Family Research Council members convinced a New Jersey hotel to stop offering discounted room rates to women coming to the state seeking abortion care. Is cutting off assistance for lodging and travel for women seeking abortion care the best way to help or simply a low-blow to women in vulnerable circumstances?

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Americans Demand Justice, Even When the Supreme Court Doesn't

by Liza Fuentes, Reproductive Health Technologies Project

October 23, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

We do not allow the government to deny us the right to vote because we are poor, nor are we denied the right to freedom of religion because we cannot afford it. So why is the right to an abortion, one explicitly protected by the Constitution, any different?

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