{"id":238333,"date":"2020-04-20T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238333"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:52:45","slug":"american-clinics-report-up-to-400-rise-in-abortion-requests-if-theres-a-covid-19-economic-collapse-this-will-get-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/american-clinics-report-up-to-400-rise-in-abortion-requests-if-theres-a-covid-19-economic-collapse-this-will-get-much-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"American clinics report up to 400% rise in abortion requests. If there\u2019s a Covid-19 economic collapse, this will get much worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Very good news! We need millions more!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a child right now feels like a big luxury.\u201d Facing an out-of-control disease, a grim economic climate and with some states banning abortions as non-essential, many women are rushing to terminate their pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has impacted every aspect of life in the US, including one deeply controversial topic: abortions. Several states \u2013 including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas \u2013 are trying to ban abortions, calling them \u201cnon-essential\u201d procedures in the wake of a public health crisis. As a result, some clinics have closed, while others are experiencing a spike in requests from women hoping to get an abortion while they still can.<\/p>\n<p>The Trust Women abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, reported performing 252 abortions in March, up from 90 in March 2019. Julie Burkhart, the chief executive of Trust Women, told RT.com this week that between the Wichita, Kansas clinic and her other clinic in Oklahoma City (which was briefly closed but has since reopened), they have seen a \u201c300 to 400 percent\u201d increase in their patient load.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe women who have been calling are uncertain about having a baby when the world is so unpredictable all of a sudden, and they\u2019re worried about money due to the sharp rise in unemployment,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing more women calling earlier than usual in their pregnancy, and there\u2019s this urgent nature to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/486184-abortions-covid19-america-clinics\/?fbclid=IwAR2e2sF6H1Un2MPlcTF19LfrKnZjUP93Nh-sUNDfTPaG30qV9RHNXdBDzV0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/486184-abortions-covid19-america-clinics\/?fbclid=IwAR2e2sF6H1Un2MPlcTF19LfrKnZjUP93Nh-sUNDfTPaG30qV9RHNXdBDzV0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Very good news! We need millions more! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}