Editorial: If homeless women have trouble getting contraception, why not bring it to them?
LA TimesAbsalon Galat, left, and other members of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services street medical team next to the La Canada Verde Creek in Santa Fe Springs in August 2021. But in a homeless services system rife with complexities and problems, one specific and straightforward thing L.A. County could do is offer more and better reproductive healthcare for homeless women where the priority is survival, not getting to a clinic for a checkup and birth control. A new Los Angeles County effort could help young homeless women and people who don’t identify as female but are capable of getting pregnant have more agency over their reproductive lives. The county’s Housing for Health division of the Department of Health Services will launch a program, probably within a month’s time, to bring mobile vans outfitted like clinics to encampments across the county. The larger mobile vans will accommodate women’s reproductive healthcare in a way that wasn’t possible before, according to Galat, who also ran the county’s COVID response medical teams that went out to encampments to test and vaccinate for the coronavirus as well as provide other medical care.
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