ProChoice Resources
Hersey Abortion Assistance Fund
From July 1, 1995 through June 30, 1996, PCR was able to financially
assist 533 women so they could choose and obtain safe abortions. Of these women, 78%
received grants and 22% received loans. These grants and loans totaled $115,963.
The money provided by the Hersey Abortion Asistance Fund is paid directly to the clinics.
While we encourage the recipients to repay their loans,
we receive a low rate of repayments because of the desperate financial situations of many
of these women.
Pro-Choice Resources has provided this emergency financial assistance to women
since 1977 when Medicaid funds were denied to low-income women for abortion
procedures as part of their medical care.
With the ban on Medicaid funding removed in
June 1994, the Hersey Abortion Assistance Fund will now assist:
- women who have no health insurance;
- women who have private insurance that does not cover abortion;
- minors; and
- low-income
women from other states where Medicaid does not cover abortion.
Hersey Abortion Assistance Fund phone number (612) 825-8270
CASE STUDIES
Ramona S.
Ramona is 26 years old and lives with her only child, a five year-old, from a former marriage. She is nine weeks
pregnant, and has decided to terminate. She works two days a week as an LPN (licensed practitioning nurse) and
has no insurance, medical or otherwise. She cannot get help from the man involved in her pregnancy, because he
left her when she told him she was pregnant. Her parents will not help her because they are opposed to abortion.
Ramona will begin taking classes to earn an RN (registered nurse) degree, with which she hopes to find a better
paying full time job. Pro-Choice Resources was able to help Ramona fund the abortion she needed.
Chantel D.
Chantel is 15 years old and lives in a relatively small town outside the Twin Cities. The man involved in her
pregnancy is 16 years old and cannot help Chantel cope with their problem because he has run away from home.
He has been gone for more than a week. She cannot ask her parents for help because they are vehemently opposed
to abortion. She has spoken to her school counselor about her situa tion. She has raised $50 on her own to help pay
for the procedure, but she was unable to pay the balance of the cost. Chantel said she did not want to be pregnant
and she cannot be a mother. Chantel agreed to repay a loan of $175.00 from Pro-Choice Resources in monthly
installments of $10.00.
Hersey Abortion Assistance Fund phone number (612) 825-8270
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