How Much Is an Abortion?
glamour.com, you're probably wondering the cost of an abortion and whether or not it's covered by your insurance—especially now since has been overturned by the Supreme Court.
Of all the complex factors that now prevent people from accessing their , it seems like the price of the procedure should be one of the easiest things to understand.
Truly, even that can be tricky in the fight to gain .While voters in Kansas voted to and President Joe Biden just signed an to expand access, the cost of abortion procedures for people who find themselves unwillingly pregnant is getting harder and harder to decipher in a post-Roe world.The depend on a variety of circumstances, including how far along someone is in their , as well as where they lives, what plan they have, and what type of abortion is performed: a surgical abortion or medication abortion (more on those in a minute).
Here's how to understand abortion costs.During the , surgical abortions use gentle suction to remove a pregnancy from the . (This is also called a vacuum aspiration or an aspiration abortion.) The in-clinic procedure can cost up to $1,500 later in pregnancy, but most hover around the $750 range per abortion price points, according to .Later in pregnancy, the medical standard for abortion care is a surgical abortion utilizing a procedure called dilation and evacuation, or D&E, which can be more expensive.
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