A-Z Abortion clinic in Las Vegas advertises on their site that "Patients less than 18.6 weeks pregnant are done in one day". They also offered a $20 off online coupon. The coupon instructed women to print the page off their site and bring it with them. Women's Center of Michigan also offered a "special online discount" $20 off coupon. The Scotsdale Women's Center in Detroit offered a variety of discounts. $5 off the Morning After Pill, and $20 off "Any Other Service over $50". The site for the Virginia Annandale abortion clinic tells women "if you like us on Facebook you can receive a discount coupon for services". The Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta offers a $10 off coupon for "Abortion services, Medical & Surgical, for New & Returning Patients. The "Reproductive Services" clinic in El Paso, Texas, says on their site "LIKE & SHARE us on Facebook, receive $15 OFF Coupon" The website for James Pendergraft's abortion clinics in Florida has a $100.00 off coupon. His clinic in Orlando at one time offered a $50 off coupon only good on Sundays. One Planned Parenthood clinic in Florida offered $10 off if they came in on Thanksgiving. The Women's Center in Nashville, Tennessee, performs abortions up to 16 weeks and offered a $25.00 off coupon – but only one discount per patient ! http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/23/...ling-your-baby-by-liking-their-facebook-page/ Here's an actual website that is offering $25 off right now: http://womancare-abortion.com/abortion-cost/ But that's not the whopper. This abortion clinic was offering "Buy one get one half off" abortions; if a patient went there, the site promised her, she could get a 50% discount on any future procedure (of lesser than or equal value). Carol Everett, who formerly ran a string of abortion clinics, had this observation to make: "The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund. But, it's too late."
I agree that this kind of thing is distasteful and wrong but I see it as a wider issue with the commercialisation of healthcare in general rather than a specific abortion topic. Does your specific focus on abortion imply that you’d be fine with this kind of thing if it applied to medical treatment like transplant surgery, fixing broken limbs, mental health care or even other reproductive care such as birth control, sterilisation or IVF?
I don't find it anymore distasteful or wrong than the crap I get in the mail with coupons for hearing tests and hearing aids, for dental work, for medical screening, hospitals and dentists advertising,etc. Women have abortions for many reasons and some are financial....they need a break, a coupon helps them so , of course, Anti-Choicers like the OP think that's horrible to help the less fortunate..... it may help the woman have an abortion sooner rather than later.... It's a coupon for a LEGAL medical procedure...why would a coupon be "distasteful or wrong" ? Do you think that a woman who wanted her kid sees the coupon and then decides to get an abortion because she gets a deal !!!!!! NO, you don't think that way!!! The OP might but YOU don't...not really...
We’ve always had a slightly different view of abortion. I’m totally in favour of its legality and availability, and recognise it as the best (or least worst) option in many situations but I don’t see it as something to be celebrated or promoted and so I don’t think any form of commercialisation of it is positive. Of course, there are a lot of other medical procedures and treatments for which similar issues apply.
Since you didn't see my entire post I ask again, how is it "promoting" abortion? Women who want to keep their kid don't see a coupon and then decide to have an abortion. Offering a financial break to women who may be in financial difficulty is not "celebrating" abortion... No, this thread is just another silly attempt by an Anti-Choicer who has no good argument against abortion so brings up ridiculous irrelevant threads like panda gestation and abortion coupons, neither of which prove anything or mean anything. Anti-Choicers just have nothing else.
It’s literally a promotion. That’s what it’s called when a business offers a discount coupon to try to attract more customers. It clearly isn’t going to make a woman decide to have an abortion but it could well influence a woman, if only subconsciously, who is undecided on what they want to do. There’s also the issue that the provider offering the best discount isn’t necessarily the best provider for a particular woman. You often get what you pay for and I don’t see this as a field where people should be making that kind of gamble. Sure, we’re in total agreement on that. Just because these coupons aren’t a valid argument against abortion doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a good thing in general though.
And like all "promotions" it is up to the individual to make up their own mind about it. Yes, people are swayed by promotions but a woman contemplating an abortion and uses these promotions has probably already decided to have one. But again, people are free to make up their own minds. Hospitals advertise. But not necessarily a bad thing especially for a woman who is having an abortion because she's broke.....it IS a good case for all hospitals and clinics to do abortions and all health insurance providers to pay for them. I think we can agree that is the safest thing for women.
They have a service to sell and are using basic marketing material. No one who doesn't already plan on getting an abortion would get one because they saw a coupon. You have been trying to sell us on having a genuine concern for human life. No one is buying. Maybe you should offer a coupon!
