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Time for change.(Medicaid should fund prenatal care services and abortion)
As they should, our public policies encourage the provision of medical care to poor pregnant women by subsidizing maternity care services under Medicaid. But when it comes to abortion, the reverse is true: Subsidized care is denied to medically indigent women even when they do not wish to bear a child. Both the individuals involved and society as a whole pay a high price for this unequal treatment of pregnancy-related services.
* Poor women are forced either to divert their family's meager resources from basic necessities to pay for an abortion themselves or to continue the pregnancy and give birth to a child they cannot afford to raise on their own-a result that ...
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