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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2021 Dec 28;110:76–80. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2021.12.009

Table 2.

Ability to schedule and travel to abortion appointment among study respondents obtaining abortion care in 12 abortion facilities in Texas and three abortion clinics in California (N = 434) Data are presented as n (%) or median (interquartile range).

All patients (n = 434) Texas (n = 291) California (n = 143) p-value
Travel to abortion appointment was easy 334 (78.4%) 220 (77.5%) 114 (80.3%) 0.51
Total clinic visits for this abortion 2 (1–2) 2 (1–3) 1 (1–1) <0.01
Had to take time off work for this abortion appointment (among those currently employed) 201 (69.3%) 136 (73.9%) 65 (61.3%) 0.03
Had to arrange childcare or other dependent care for abortion appointment 181 (42.6%) 131 (46.3%) 50 (35.2%) 0.03
Scheduled abortion appointment later than preferred 188 (43.7%) 121 (42.2%) 67 (46.9%) 0.36
Had to sell something of value or delay paying another expense to fund abortion costs 156 (36.9%) 140 (49.7%) 16 (11.4%) <0.01
Miles from home zip code to abortion site 18.5 (9.1–39.4) 22.1 (10.7–59.8) 13.5 (7.0–31.7) <0.01