Fewer states allow abortions, yet American women are having more

On a commercialSTIHIV stretch of Queens, New York, across from a hair-braiding salon and next to a McDonald’s, two security guards mark the entrance to the Jamaica Sexual Health Clinic. For years this has been the neighbourhood’s go-to place for testing and treatment. Joaquin Aracena, from the Bureau of Public Health Clinics, proudly shows its newest addition: the wing. With freshly painted white walls and pastel-green doors, it is distinctly less institutional-looking than the rest of the clinic.“Once they did [away with] I was able to get this space,” he says. The clinic now offers walk-in medication abortions free to all. Word is clearly spreading. Last year it provided just over 700 in January it was 100, and this morning the two nurse practitioners have already sent four women home with a non-transparent bag containing the pills they need to terminate their pregnancies.