So you’re researching the costs for a medication abortion, aka the abortion pill, and you need to know more! At carafem, the abortion pill costs $250-600 depending on if you choose a video visit or which location you visit. At other providers, the abortion pill typically costs between $300-800, again depending on your health insurance, your state, and your provider.
That price doesn’t sound to me like it’s out of reach given that actually having a child is orders of magnitude more expensive. Even in lost wages due to pregrancy are likely a lot more meaningful than $250.
Even in those areas where they can not be accessed legally, I suspect that black market prices (online ordering via crypto) is relatively cheap.
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Access to “the latest X” is not a technology in the sense of the question. The latest X is often too expensive for everyone and the question is about whether the cost to access it go down over time.
According to https://carafem.org/how-much-does-the-abortion-pill-cost/ :
That price doesn’t sound to me like it’s out of reach given that actually having a child is orders of magnitude more expensive. Even in lost wages due to pregrancy are likely a lot more meaningful than $250.
Even in those areas where they can not be accessed legally, I suspect that black market prices (online ordering via crypto) is relatively cheap.
Access to “the latest X” is not a technology in the sense of the question. The latest X is often too expensive for everyone and the question is about whether the cost to access it go down over time.
I think we’re having an argument over the technical definition of a word (“access”) that never was defined in the original tweet :)