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State Funding of Abortion
In Virginia, public funding (Medicaid, state employees and their dependents, public hospitals) is available for abortion only in cases of rape, incest, incapacitating fetal abnormality and/or to save the life of the woman. Severe health risks to the woman are no longer covered as of April 2010 due to a budget amendment introduced by Governor Bob McDonnell.
A first-trimester surgical or medical abortion can cost an average of $400. As a result, many women and girls with limited funds must delay their abortions as they try to put together the money they need. This situation can force women into more complicated second-trimester abortions (abortions performed after twelve weeks). In Virginia, abortions may be performed in clinics up to 14 weeks. Any procedure past 14 weeks must be performed in a hospital.
Help is available. Individual abortion providers can often offer financial assistance. There are also abortion funds located in Virginia that can assist low-income women in covering the partial or full cost of an abortion.
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