I would not want to be forced to consider adoption just because I'm poor. And in a developing country, where orphanage facilities are probably not the greatest I'd be even more desperate for an abortion if I was poor, pregnant and couldn't afford to keep the baby. It's imperative that abortion is available to poorer classes - no one ever said this was a matter of elitism. Geez....

Anonymous wrote

"But do they have to make is so easy? free to low income residents? Isn't abortion supposed to be a huge life choice?"

Forcing low income women to pay for abortions doesn't help them think more about the alternatives. It means deciding between food and an abortion, or between electric bills and abortion. It means that they put off the procedure for weeks or months, trying to pull together enough money to pay, as the abortion itself gets more and more expensive, or eventually illegal, in the case of Mexico City (where abortions are only legal in the first trimester.)

Having an abortion is a difficult decision for some women, and a simple one for others. For every woman, it should be made based on her desires, principles, ability to raise a child, and mental and physical health, not on wheter or not she can afford it. Kudos to the politicians of Mexico City, (and the amazing Mexican feminist movement, without whom this decision would never have hapened). If only our country could be as just.

I think it's great that Mexico is moving in this direction with women's right! Great for them! But do they have to make is so easy? free to low income residents? Isn't abortion supposed to be a huge life choice? I think that putting a price on it really gives you the opportunity to explore other means, such as adoption.

Because, once abortions are banned in Texas, women will have some place to go to get them that's less likely to drive them into debt than Western Europe, Canada or the UK.