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Emergency Medical Assistance Inc. (EMA)
Emergency Medical Assistance, Inc. (EMA) is a nonprofit
organization. EMA's sole mission is to help provide funding for abortions for
women and girls who find themselves faced with an unwanted or medically
problematic pregnancy and do not have the financial means to support a child or
terminate the pregnancy. EMA strives to preserve their need for privacy,
dignity, and safe medical care when they face this difficult situation.
Abortion was legalized in 1973, and since then any woman could have a
safe legal abortion. In 1975, Harriette Glasner organized
EMA which was one of the first abortion funding agencies in the nation. She was
deeply involved in women's access to quality reproductive health care. While
working with
Planned Parenthood of the Palm Beaches
which she also founded, she
recognized a more pressing issue facing poor women - limited access to
contraceptives and abortion because of their economic status. Women without
money were forced to bear an unwanted child. Harriette founded EMA to help
equalize this inequity.We feel very strongly that every child
should be a wanted child, and economically disadvantaged women deserve the same
opportunity to control their reproductive lives as more affluent women. EMA is
primarily dependent upon donations from individuals such as you to accomplish
our mission.
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