{"id":33941,"date":"2012-08-08T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_call_for_free_abortions_as_needy_women_priced_out_of_procedure\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:46:01","slug":"smh_call_for_free_abortions_as_needy_women_priced_out_of_procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33941","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Call for free abortions as needy women priced out of procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing numbers of women in desperate financial straits cannot afford abortions, say women&#8217;s health advocates who are running out of funds to help them. They say women on Centrelink benefits cannot afford fees at private abortion clinics, and public hospitals must play a bigger role in providing a free service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Women who are really poor are finding it hard to get bulk-billed abortion services,&#8221; said Denele Crozier, the executive officer of Women&#8217;s Health NSW, the peak body for women&#8217;s community health centres. &#8221;Either public hospitals must provide an abortion service or governments must further subsidise poor women to use the free-standing clinics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Women receive a Medicare rebate for terminations but out-of-pocket costs are high for many.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/political-news\/call-for-free-abortions-as-needy-women-priced-out-of-procedure-20120805-23o1u.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing numbers of women in desperate financial straits cannot afford abortions, say women&#8217;s health advocates who are running out of funds to help them. They say women on Centrelink benefits cannot afford fees at private abortion clinics, and public hospitals<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33941\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,204,101,104,114,96,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}