The city already offers medication abortions at its 11 public hospitals, but the new program will eventually expand access to four public health clinics and provide an avenue to the procedure at no cost to patients.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, announced the program at a City Hall news conference on Tuesday, in which he hailed an endeavor that “no other city in the nation or in the world” has undertaken via its public health department providing medication abortions. “We are the first,” Adams said. Clinics in Queens, Harlem and Brooklyn will offer the pills by the end of the year, the city said. The pills at the clinics will be provided to patients at no cost and are being funded as part of a $1.
Wade last summer New York City has launched several programs in recent months to help women access abortions. In August, Adams signed a package of six bills from the City Council known as the NYC Abortion Rights Act, which paved the way to make medication abortions free at Department of Health clinics. And in November, the city launched the first Abortion Access Hub in the country that confidentially connects women seeking abortions to abortion providers across the city.
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