{"id":185378,"date":"2018-07-30T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=185378"},"modified":"2018-07-30T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T22:29:48","slug":"half-american-women-abortion-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/half-american-women-abortion-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of American women having an abortion have already had one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Half of all U.S. abortions are repeat abortions<\/a>, according a report published<\/a> by the Tara Health Foundation (TARA), whose stated goal is\u00a0to “determine the most effective opportunities to improve access to reproductive health services in the United States using both philanthropy and impact investments.” Reproductive health services includes abortion, as indicated further on the organization’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tara Health Foundation’s Reproductive Health Investors Alliance partners<\/a> with abortion organizations like\u00a0Planned Parenthood, and has\u00a0granted<\/a>\u00a0them $3.35 million. It was the Alliance’s November\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0where the shocking statement was made that approximately “50% of abortions are repeat abortions (460K abortions\/year).”<\/p>\n

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50 percent of abortions repeat abortions (Image credit: edited from Reproductive Health Investors Alliance, Oct 2017 report)<\/p><\/div>\n

TARA was founded by Ruth Shaber<\/a>, an OB\/GYN who held research positions at Kaiser Permanente. According to her online bio<\/a>, she sits on the Medical Advisory Committee for Planned Parenthood Federation of America<\/a>. In an interview<\/a> she conducted with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, she explains how TARA’S philanthropy was recently used to assist the abortion chain Whole Woman’s Health (WWH) while they raised legal challenges to Texas’s abortion laws, taking it all the way to the Supreme Court:<\/p>\n

One example of how we\u2019re using capital in an integrated fashion and creatively is in how we\u2019ve supported Whole Woman\u2019s Health, an organization of clinics led by Amy Hagstrom Miller. Whole Woman\u2019s Health was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that was decided last year that was arguing against the restrictive laws in the state of Texas. Whole Woman\u2019s Health… was thriving in its provision of women\u2019s health services and reproductive health and abortion care, in particular. But because of the burden of the litigation, they needed to open and close their clinics multiple times. As a result, they had a large amount of debt, and the only place they were able to get capital from was high-interest credit card debt.<\/em><\/p>\n

When we got involved in supporting them, we had an opportunity to refinance their debt with a very low interest rate, very favorable terms for them. Yet it still was providing an investment for Tara Health Foundation. As opposed to giving them a grant, we were able to do this private debt. It\u2019s giving us a 3% return over five years.<\/em><\/p>\n