My bad. I was assuming that a $500 to $1000 cost (plus the direct and indirect cost of travelling sometimes across State lines) could be prohibitive for women with the lowest incomes. Of course this statistic is far from reassuring even from a pro-choice standpoint.
Oh, it almost certainly is prohibitive for at least some depending on what state they're in and
how poor they are (I'm not sure if there are any studies on this that finesse within the general category of 'the poor'), but to go from that to 'reserved to rich women' ignores the very real, and very sobering, correlation between abortion and poverty, which--I don't think I need to point this out to you but I'm putting it out there anyway--indicates that poor women are being
immensely poorly served in ways that go far beyond abortion access or lack thereof. (Incidentally,
Edin and Kefalas have shown that this isn't (or wasn't ten years ago) an issue of access to contraception, and also that it
certainly isn't an issue of poor women being less likely to believe that abortion is wrong.)
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