Barriers to Access

Recorded:
Mar 2023
Speaker
Dr. Katherine Farris
Duration
00:1:12
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Katherine Farris: The things that I feel most impact patients– and this is, again, the patients who I know it’s been the hardest for them to get to me, because, of course, I don’t see the ones who don’t get to me– but the ones who it’s been hardest for them to get to me, language barriers. Patients who, English is not their first language, absolutely have a problem. These are the same things that affect all of health care, it’s just magnified with abortion care. People who are lower income. If you’ve got money, you’ll be able to get care. If you can get there. You can get childcare, you have insurance to pay for it maybe– not many people in our area have any insurance coverage, but man, if you live in California, Medicaid pays for abortions. And there are a lot of states where it does, and it absolutely should, but it doesn’t here. So, not having healthcare coverage, not having money in general, not having childcare, being a single parent makes it much harder. We do absolutely have patients who come to clinic with their kids. They can’t find childcare. Or, very often their partner or a friend is seen with one to two kids. They are in getting an abortion with us because they also needed a driver and this was the only one who could drive them.

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