Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Mayor Eric Adams appeared Thursday on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” to discuss his recent pledge to prioritize women’s health, beginning with a rollout of free abortion pills at the city’s sexual health clinics.
It was just really conversations with my sisters, my mother. Watching the women who were in my life, in one way or another, and just how unfair we have been toward women and their health care needs. And we want to take a real bold approach. Not only the abortion pill, but just really to redefine women, and their bodies, and the taboos that we've attached to them. And I think that has prevented really some of the adequate health care. And this is how many women have shared with me.
The Department of Health commissioner, Dr. [Ashwin] Vasan, they're going to list on the website all of the frequently asked questions, so people can know exactly how it's done. But it's going to be treated the same way we're using our 11 Health + Hospitals that's already in place. And traditionally it does not deal with no prescription. This is free for people, so they can get the necessary care if they're looking to terminate their pregnancy.
So is that part of your goal, in fact, to help contribute to abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leading to it being severely limited in other states? That is the complexity of living in a city like New York in a country like America. Our goal is to make sure no one is harmed, no one is treated in an unfair way and we are going to continue to do so. We're not going to always agree with those who are marching in protest, but we are going to do it in a law-abiding way and that is what the New York City Police Department has been doing.
They can have this issue after childbirth, they can have this before childbirth. It can mean that they have trouble with incontinence. It can also mean that they're unable to experience sexual intercourse or even use tampons because their bodies are so tight, related to trauma or like I said, even childbirth. So it's a serious issue for women, it's extremely painful and it's super, super expensive to treat. Even with insurance, I spent thousands of dollars probably on this.
New York City was one of the first places people could get a legal abortion before Roe. According to a grateful relative, the clinic in her state arranged it and someone from the NYC clinic picked her up at the airport and brought her back the same day. The cost was reasonable.
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