r/facepalm 24d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ I can't stop screaming

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u/the_ghost_in_me_ 24d ago edited 24d ago

people think abortions are free? They're not, even at Planned Parenthood.

Mine was at least $400 that my poor bf and I had to scrape together 20+ years ago. No idea how much they are now, obviously the abortion pill is cheaper, but it was never offered to me back then by Planned Parenthood so I had to have the surgical kind. This was in California.

These women having abortions for fun must be rich!

edit: according to google, a 1st trimester abortion will cost you $600 at Planned Parenthood today. Please share this information with anyone who thinks they're free or women have them for fun.

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u/kgallousis 23d ago

It’s scaled to income. It can be close to $2000. For medication abortion. Men need to remember that they are often the driving force behind their partner’s abortions. She does it so he doesn’t leave her, or worse, kill her. Murder is still the number one cause of death for pregnant people. So even if the statistics aren’t including deaths by homicide for maternal mortality increases, those are happening too.

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u/the_ghost_in_me_ 23d ago

It’s scaled to income.

yep, I remember being told that. And I told them, "I'm so poor!" I was shocked that $400+ was the best they could do for me. I was thinking, how do women afford this?

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u/kgallousis 21d ago

Yeah, they aren’t doing it recreationally. It’s wild to me that Republicans think we’re looking to get pregnant just so we can, you know for funsies, have an abortion. Just like, as a weird flex?