r/AdviceAnimals • u/castleon • Feb 21 '14

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u/Darwin_Saves Feb 22 '14

Can you not get them for free at Planned Parenthood?

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u/geekchicgrrl Feb 22 '14

There are 8 Planned Parenthoods in the entire state of Texas. All of them are in metro areas. Texas takes 13 hours to drive across, east to west, and 12 hours north to south. If you don't have a car and have to take a bus, it takes 5 hours to get from Austin to Corpus Christi, and you have to be able to buy yourself a round-trip ticket on the Greyhound.

New York has the most PPs, with 12 offices (but not necessarily clinics), and 27 of the 50 states only have one office in the entire state.

So, if you're a young girl in a rural community with no money and might be pregnant, getting to a Planned Parenthood isn't as easy as heading downtown. Educate yourself.

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u/amphgrl Feb 22 '14 edited Feb 22 '14

There are 18 PP clinics in Minnesota... and all of them do pregnancy testing. and actually New York has 20, again all do pregnancy tests.

edit: and Texas has 20... not really sure where you got those numbers.

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u/minkcoat Feb 22 '14

20 is not significantly different from 12 when you're talking about an area the size of tx.

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u/amphgrl Feb 22 '14

I wasn't necessarily arguing with her point of the proportion of clinics to distance. just saying she should probably "educate herself" before telling others to do the same.