Anyone know? Some one in GD is claiming it is thousands of dollars. I find that figure to be a little high. I thought it was practically an out-patient procedure.
And I mean sort of your standard first tri-mester abortion, not partial birth.
I’m also curious if the price hasn’t merely gone up because of lack of competition.
Also, how much does RU-486 cost?
In New York City at a public clinic in 1991 or so, an abortion ran $300.
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I read in an article about RU-486 that a surgical abortion and RU-486 cost about the same about, around $300.
The second “about” should be “amount” of course!
Thank you.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/09/28/abortion.pill/
Before someone asks, here is the link. The last line mentions the cost. I remember everything I read 
I met a girl about 4 years ago who worked for NARRL… NARLAL? Whatever. She said an abortion in Oregon at the time cost about $300. She also said that people receiving “public assistance” in Oregon got an extra $25/month for each child – $300 per year. Every year. For as long as the child lives there. Plus there are the public costs of schooling and health care, and possibly other costs if the kid (being unwanted) turns to crime. (Note, I am not saying that poor kids grow up to commit crimes. I’m only listing it as a potential cost if that child grows up to commit crimes. Hey, the upper-middle class Menendez brothers killed their parents, and they weren’t poor!)
So whatever an abortion costs, it’s cheaper than all of the other expenses involved. It might make sense for governments to pay for them upon request.
Maybe it makes sense to mandate them…?
Anyway, $300 has always been the common knowledge amount I’ve heard. Pretty cheap, even for an outpatient procedure.
If the person in question has health insurance, your insurance should cover a good portion of it (nice perk to that is that you don’t have to walk into a clinic to get it done, you can just go to a hospital out-patient center…I don’t know about you, but clinics are creepy not to mention all the religious pro-life people screaming at you).
I wasn’t aware of this until someone I knew mentioned that your insurance covers that type of thing…better to pay out $1500 (what the hospital charges the insurance company) for an aborted pregnancy than $10,000 for a full-term birth. Sad but true, economics ends up ruling policy.
I think the gov’t should pay for the killing of all people who commit crimes with a value excess of the cost of the execution.
Also remember there are long term health effects of having an abortion.
The going rate in the southeast is between $300 and $450, depending on how far along the pregnancy is and what clinic you go to. Somewhat ironically, clinics that have been bombed are a little more expensive due to tightened security and (presumably) the increased pay to keep qualified staff.
Long term health effects of abortion, by the way, are statistically less common and also less severe than long term health effects of to-term pregnancy and delivery.
not necessarily. Many health insurance plans do NOT cover abortions. and as for the rationale “better to pay $1500 than the $10,000” , my insurance refused every year to cover: Appointment for birth control exam $80, and $30 per month for the pills. MUCH cheaper than either of those alernatives. The appointment was seen as “not medically necessary” and the pills, too were elective.
And, as far as the actual insurance plans are concerned, the employer sets up the options when signing up - in my case my employer was a non profit run by a priest. In the case of state employees in MI, a legislator proposed law to drop abortion coverage on the presumption that tax dollars should not go for an elective procedure. Can’t remember if it passed or not.
Point being, the abortion coverage is a rider available to be added.
In California, they are $400 from planned Parenthood. Or free if you can’t afford them. I paid for some. Also, I saw a lot of guys come in with the girls, the guys paid cash, weird.
This thread is doing a pretty good job of staying on topic, but we’re getting some drift here on subjects like the long-term health effects. Please, this being GQ, can we stay focused on the topic, that being the monetary cost to get an abortion? If you want to discuss other aspects of the issue, it belongs in another thread, and probably in GD.
in San Diego it runs about $200 but if you have medical its covered I believe
In the southeast they start at around $300 but move on a sliding scale according to how far along you are. When you get into the 12 - 20 week stage you run about $700 - $900. Ouch.
In southern IL, at one of only 2 places iirc in IL that performs abortions up to second trimester, the fees start at $300 for weeks 7 to 11, and end up at $1475 for 24 weeks. I find it hard to believe that prices would be so vastly different in CA.
–tygre
Should the guy pay half or all?
Sorry Chronos
That would be a Great Debate, wouldn’t it?
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