Daily News | Outside Philly and Pittsburgh, it can be as hard to get an abortion in Pa. as in Mississippi
Twelve weeks into a pregnancy that no one in her rural Pennsylvania hometown knew about, Sarah Hammond began driving to obtain an abortion.
In the vast stretch of Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, it can be almost as hard to get an abortion as in Mississippi, the state at the center of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft decision that appears poised to overturn nationwide abortion rights. Although Pennsylvania has never enacted restrictions as stringent as Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, the laws on the books still have effectively wiped out access in much of the commonwealth.
Hallways must be a certain width, exam rooms must be a specific size; there are requirements about parking spaces, and front door awnings. Building a clinic or renovating an existing medical building to compliance costs $2 million to $5 million, said Melissa Reed, CEO of Planned Parenthood Keystone, which operates reproductive health clinics in eastern and southern Pennsylvania.
“[T]here’s plenty more heavy lifting that needs to be done at the state level to help usher in the post-generation,” said State Rep. Kathy Rapp, majority cochair of the Pro-Life Caucus, who represents northwestern Pennsylvania.Abortion — and accessing an abortion — can be difficult for anyone.
But first Pennsylvania requires blood and urine protein testing — lab work that is not medically necessary for the vast majority of patients, said Sutocky of the Women’s Centers.
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