NEW YORK — Abortion pills will soon be available free of charge at four public health clinics in the city, Mayor Adams announced Tuesday while lamenting what he described as a societal stigma against vaginas.
The pills, which can abort a fetus for upward of 12 weeks into a pregnancy, have been available for free at the city’s 11 public hospitals since last summer, but Adams said Health Department-run clinics in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx will now also start offering them.
The Morrisania Sexual Health Clinic in the Bronx is the first one that will be able to provide the pills, starting Wednesday, Adams said. Three other clinics in Crown Heights, Central Harlem and Jamaica will follow suit and start dispensing the meds in coming months, according to City Hall.
