What it was like to have an abortion in 1978

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   Kzokal April 15, 2012 at 2:27 pm | Permalink

   While I wished it was the 1970s again but I would like to say “What happened?, how did things got so bad today compared it was back then?”

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   Stacey April 15, 2012 at 5:25 pm | Permalink

   Of course, that’s what it was like for a woman who had insurance coverage, and things would have looked very, very different for her if she were on Medicaid.

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   JB April 15, 2012 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

   I had an abortion in Quebec, and it was much like what was described. It was at cost, but at a far lower cost than New York could provide even with the added price of gas. I had much better abortion access in a country of which I am not a citizen. It just sucks that it was not surprising at all.

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   Shannon April 18, 2012 at 8:36 am | Permalink

   Of course, that’s what it was like for a woman who had insurance coverage, and things would have looked very, very different for her if she were on Medicaid.

   Maybe, maybe not. I had an abortion in 1988 and used Medicaid to do so. Like the author, I walked into the clinic, provided my information, had the procedure, and went home. There were no lines outside, no people telling me I was horrible, and no state-mandated pressure to re-think my decision. I would never say it was a good experience, but I was surrounded by people, beginning to end, who worked hard to soothe me. My means for paying for the procedure didn’t affect the quality of my treatment whatsoever.

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   Hershele Ostropoler April 19, 2012 at 8:40 am | Permalink

   An interesting read, particularly because I was born in 1978. I’ve always been on the side of “if my mother had aborted the fetus that ended up being me, I wouldn’t be here to complain, would I?” but this really drove home to me how society and the state did not force her to have me over her objections.

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