How hard is it, currently, to get an abortion?
posted by bitchphd
Pretty hard. In 2000, 87% of U.S. counties had no abortion provider, and 86 of 276 metropolitan areas didn't, either. I once lived in a city that had the only clinic in the entire state. This means, of course, that if you need or want an abortion, you may well have to travel. Of course, we know that there are places that mandate waiting periods to "think over" your decision. So, if you live somewhere where there isn't a clinic, you have to travel to the city where the clinic is, have an appointment, go stay in a hotel overnight, go back for your abortion, and then either travel home immediately after the procedure or stay in a hotel again for at least one night. Pricey, and inconvenient: you gotta take time off work, you gotta pay for the travel and the hotel room, what if you're living with your parents or someone else (a husband) who you can't or won't tell? Maybe they're abusive or something, who knows. So you have to drum up some excuse for going out of town for 3 or 4 days. Good luck with that.
And, of course, we don't want to provide emergency contraception, because that, too, would make it too easy.
Well,we're they're aiming to make it even more difficult, folks. Because, of course, people whose lives are complicated enough that the expenses or inconvenience of a trip out of town are enough to block them having an abortion are in the best position to raise children. Anyway, now the idea, I guess, is to shame the cheap hotels where women stay for these trips, or possibly sue them if the clinic provides followup nursing care (you know, having someone there in case you have a complication, or are in pain) on the grounds that they're allowing medical practices to happen in an unlicensed facility or some crap like that.
So let's just clarify. La Quinta Inn won't actually tell women they can't stay there. But it is telling the clinic that it can't let women know that the hotel exists in its promotional literature, or provide nurses for them after their procedures.
Fine. If they don't want women's business, they won't have mine.
And, of course, we don't want to provide emergency contraception, because that, too, would make it too easy.
Well,
So let's just clarify. La Quinta Inn won't actually tell women they can't stay there. But it is telling the clinic that it can't let women know that the hotel exists in its promotional literature, or provide nurses for them after their procedures.
Fine. If they don't want women's business, they won't have mine.








