Reactions to the NY Times and PPNYC Study

The New York Times has published several letters to the editor in response to last Monday's article on PPNYC's report on Dominican Women's reproductive health. They make for some interesting reading.

Among the reactions are those talking about mistrust of the health care system, a reminder that the cost of abortion still makes it unaccessible to some, talking about the Hyde amendment, and one woman who notes:

New York women do not have to live with 19th-century care. Poor women in other states may not have a choice.

NYTimes Article on PPNYC Study

A few months back, Planned Parenthood of New York City released a study (pdf) based on several focus groups we'd conducted with Dominican women living in New York City and Santo Domingo (DR). Among some of the key findings were that thanks to alienation from the U.S. healthcare system, women in both NYC and Santo Domingo were regularly self-inducing abortion.

Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times has written a beautiful piece on the study and the larger problem, which appeared in Sunday's paper. I highly recommend reading it.