> Abortion is, fortunately, always a choice in the US.
Legally, it is sometimes a choice in America (many states have restrictions, both within the bounds which have previously been found constitutional by the federal courts and in many cases outside them and likely to be challenged in the future, but enforced until such a challenge happens and succeeds -- and there is no guarantee that a challenge will succeed, even if the precedent suggests it should.) Practically, it is even less of a choice than it is legally, due to various factors, including the restrictions, driving abortion providers out of large swaths of the country.
Unless the only hospital nearby is a Catholic-affiliated hospital. Or you live in one of several states with little to no access to abortion providers.
> Unless the only hospital nearby is a Catholic-affiliated hospital.
Elective abortions generally aren't mostly performed in hospitals anyway, but in separate clinics, so what kind of hospital is nearby is largely irrelevant (it might have an indirect relationship in states that have adopted rules requiring abortion providers to be doctors with admitting privilegs in a nearby hospital, but those rules have, IIRC, only been proposed in places where none of the elective abortion providers meet that description in the first place, and are intended as a backdoor prohibition on abortion.)
While performed at clinics, local hospitals can have a disproportionate impact on access to abortion - for example, by influencing whether or not doctors in the area have access to training in the procedure, whether or not they provide referrals, and often are the places where poor and minority patients end up seeking care.
