FUND FACTS

2005 Client Statistics at a Glance

How did the Women's Medical Fund help in 2005?

1,116 women and teens were offered financial assistance.
799 of those used our financial assistance to pay for their abortion.
$167,500 was disbursed for abortion assistance.

Who were the 799 women and girls that the Women's Medical Fund helped to access a safe legal abortion?

$4,404 was their average annual income.
47% were receiving monthly TANF checks.
96% lived at or below the federal poverty line.
77% were mothers, with an average of 1-2 children.
70% were enrolled in Medicaid.
27% had no health insurance.

13 were girls 14 and younger.
89 were minors, 17 and under.
57 were pregnant due to rape.
88 were current victims of domestic violence.

Putting the statistics in context

One third of pregnant women choose abortion but are forced to carry to term due to lack of funds.*
$316 is the maximum TANF grant for a woman raising one child.
$300-$400 is the cost of a first trimester abortion.
$400-$2,000 is the cost of a second trimester abortion.

*H. Boonstra and A. Sonfield, Rights without Access: Revisiting Public Funding of Abortion for Poor Women, Guttmacher Report on Public Policy (April, 2000).