ABSTRACT
The chapter examines the provision of abortion services in three different contexts, including public hospitals, for-profit private hospitals, and non-profit community clinic. It shows how differential access may affect the quality of abortion care: public hospitals provided safe and affordable abortion but fell short of satisfying the patients because of healthcare disparity and the power imbalance between the women and the medical workers; private hospitals offered consumer-centric services to meet the needs of the women but also increased their risk of facing medical malpractices; the community clinic, despite small in scale, delivered patient-centered care through the cultivation of a sense of sisterhood and mutual respect. The chapter explores how state policies, the shortcomings of the medical reform, the commercialization of healthcare, and the stigmatization of female sexuality have hampered the realization of humanized and women-centered care and their potential impacts on women's well-being.
