What is an abortion fund? How people are accessing care despite legal restrictions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Since Roe v Wade was established, anti-abortion legislators have passed over 1,000 laws restricting access to abortion care.
56% : As more anti-abortion laws are passed, more people are paying attention to how people can help others access abortion care.
54% : In Texas, a person can access an abortion before pulsating fetal cardiac cells (what anti-abortion proponents call a "heartbeat") are detected, usually 14 days after a missed period.
50% : While there are a record-number of anti-abortion laws being passed to further restrict access to abortion care -- and experts believe the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn Roe v Wade in the coming months when it rules on a Mississippi 15-week abortion ban -- the reality is that abortion has been inaccessible for a large number of people living in the United States for decades, experts say, especially for people of color, poor people and those living in rural areas.
45% : Abortion is still legal in all 50 states.
45% : "Having Roe v Wade made abortion legal, but it didn't necessarily mean it made it accessible."
43% : "And essentially, we're helping to remove the financial and logistical barriers to accessing abortion for folks all across the country."
41% : As more states pass Texas-style anti-abortion laws, banning abortion before most people know they're pregnant, advocates are urging the public to learn about established abortion funds and how they help people access the care they want and need.
39% : The state will join a growing number of states passing laws that effectively ban abortion.
38% : "Any time there's this point where people think there's this crisis of accessing abortion, I think that it's what we have already experienced in the South.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.