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SAVE THE DATE!!! SAVE THE DATE!!! SAVE THE DATE!!!
Emergency Medical Assistance (EMA) is proud & excited to announce that the dynamic Carole Joffe, Ph.D., will be our keynote speaker at our Annual Spring Fundraising Event on the afternoon of Saturday, March 17, 2012, followed by a reception.
Dr. Carole Joffe, author, leader/activist in the reproductive rights movement in the United States is currently a Professor
at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and wrote the compelling 2010 book “Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us.”
Other titles penned by Dr. Joffe include “Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade” (1996); “The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers” (1986); and “Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life” (1979).
The Spring event will be held at Florida Atlantic University’s Elinor Bernon Rosenthal Lifelong Learning Complex at the John D. Mac Arthur Campus in Jupiter, Florida.
More details to follow on Facebook and via email to our subscribers.
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email us & we will gladly add you to receive future mailings & news from EMA.
Emergency Medical Assistance Inc. (EMA)
Emergency Medical Assistance, Inc. (EMA) is an independent nonprofit
organization serving Palm Beach County and
surrounding areas in South East Florida. 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 a pregnancy. The majority of our women and girls
are single, unemployed or underemployed with one or more children. EMA strives
to preserve their privacy, dignity and safe medical care when they face this
difficult situation.
Abortion was
legalized in the United States in 1973, and since then any woman could have a
safe legal abortion. In 1975, Harriette Glasner organized EMA in West Palm
Beach, Florida, which was one of the first abortion funding agencies. Harriette
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 impoverished economic status. Women
without money were forced to bear an unwanted child. EMA was founded to help
equalize this inequity and is today the only funding source in Palm Beach County
that assists women financially with pregnancy termination.
We feel very
strongly that every child should be a wanted child and economically impoverished
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.
In 2009, we funded 300 abortions (about three times the previous year). In 2010 we helped nearly 300 patients, as well. If requested, funds can be earmarked for ultrasounds, surgical procedures, or travel expenses.
Below is a chart outlining the approximate costs of abortion:
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Costs of Abortions |
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| 1s. Trimester |
$450 - $500 |
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Additional Costs: |
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| Medications |
$50 |
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| RH Negative |
$90 |
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| Overweight |
$100 |
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| Cardiac Issues |
$100 |
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| Each Additional Week |
$75 - $125 |
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| Travel Expenses |
$65/night |
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