National Network of Abortion Funds, Eastern MA Abortion Fund

In 1999, the brand new Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund received its first call. Seventeen-year-old Alma was living with her boyfriend in northeastern Massachusetts. Although Alma had MassHealth, there was no abortion provider on the North Shore who would accept it. Alma located a clinic in Boston that would take her MassHealth, but she simply did not have money she would need to pay for commuter rail tickets and two MBTA tokens. Less than $20 stood between Alma and the abortion she needed. Alma called the EMA Fund in the summer of 1999, bereft at the possibility of carrying a pregnancy to term simply because she didn’t have the money she needed to get to her appointment. The fledgling EMA Fund covered the cost of Alma’s transportation. Help us continue to help women like Alma get the health services they want and need.