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...already has five children. Last week she was in the 19th week of a pregnancy she couldn't afford; her husband is unemployed and the family lives on welfare. She also couldn't afford the reduced $425 price of a second-trimester abortion at the clinic near her home in East St. Louis. During her last pregnancy Paine tried to induce miscarriage by taking quinine pills. She ruled out a cheap illegal abortion because a girlfriend bled to death after getting one. "I know other girls who've done different things," she says. "Jumped off the top of dressers...
Abortions are still legal in Texas too. But that doesn't mean doctors can easily perform them. Four years ago, Dr. Curtis Boyd's Dallas clinic came under siege for weeks by antiabortion demonstrators. One day one of the protesters began asking after Boyd's children by name. "How's Kyle?" the man would inquire. "Has he had any accidents?" Then came the handwritten death threat in his mailbox. Boyd moved his family out of town for a while, and on Christmas Eve his clinic was torched. Boyd is back in business today, but with a sharper sense...
...will have had one by the time they are 45. But while there are about 2,500 places around the country that provide abortions -- down from a high of 2,908 ten years ago -- they are mostly clustered around cities, leaving broad areas of the country unserved. A single clinic serves 24 counties in northern Minnesota. Just one doctor provides abortions in South Dakota...
...requiring a 24-hour waiting period will go into effect if the Supreme Court upholds that provision in the Pennsylvania law. Though it sounds benign enough, it can confound poor women who already have to travel long distances to find a clinic, only to discover they must also scrape together the price of overnight accommodations. Often by the time they get the money together, they have advanced into the second trimester, when the cost is higher. (Only 12 states -- Mississippi is not one of them -- routinely provide Medicaid financing for abortion.) Nancy Rogers owns one of the clinics near Jackson...
There's one other clinic in Mississippi, but lately it has not been open for business. When Dr. Joseph Booker first moved to the coastal town of Gulfport to set up a gynecology practice in 1988, local officials granted him every permit he needed to start business. But when he purchased a small commercial building last year and made plans to relocate his Gulf Coast Women's Clinic, he got a different reception. In January, when he applied for a permit for interior reconstruction, Harrison County code administrator Ben Clark told Booker he had learned that abortion was part...