For more than five decades the Women’s Medical Fund, based in Madison and run largely by volunteers, has been quietly assisting women who need financial assistance to pay for abortions.
‘Medication abortion is really not well accessible to people in Wisconsin right now anyway without traveling or sourcing medications online,’ says Dr. Jessica Dalby, a UW Health physician.
On July 2, a 30-year-old Madison woman left her house to travel more than two hours to a clinic in Illinois to obtain a medication abortion to end her pregnancy. Since the Dobbs decision, she no longer has access to legal abortion in Wisconsin.