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stretch of Queens, New York, across from a hair-braiding salon and next to a McDonald’s, two security guards mark the entrance to the Jamaica Sexual Health Clinic. For decades this has been the neighbourhood’s go-to place for STI testing and HIV treatment. Joaquin Aracena, from the Bureau of Public Health Clinics, proudly shows its newest addition: the
This abortion service is one of the more unexpected results of the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to overturn, a ruling that returned the issue of abortion to states and triggered a number of bans. It gave the city’s government new energy to take a much more active role in co-ordinating access to the procedure, remembers the city’s health commissioner, Ashwin Vasan.
Last year more than 160,000 women—over 400 a day—crossed state borders to terminate pregnancies, versus 67,000 in 2020 . With nearly a third of women now living in states that ban abortion either outright or after six weeks, such a surge in travel was expected. More surprising is that a significant part of America’s total growth in abortions is the result of increases among residents of abortion-supporting states.
Whereas in 2020 only 7% of providers offered abortions via tele-medicine, by 2022 that had increased to 31%. In October last year New York City’s public-health system became the first to also offer virtual abortions. Commercial providers are cagey about sharing pricing information, but Sylvia Ghazarian from WRRAP, an abortion fund, says she has been able to agree on a bundle deal with providers whereby a patient gets an all-in virtual abortion for $150 .
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