As funding dries up, private abortion clinics across the US are closing
Since the fall of Roe in 2022, 76 clinics have shuttered and the initial surge of donations is now falling short Read more at The Guardian
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How abortion funds are preparing for another Trump presidency
“Even if we weren’t dealing with a hostile administration, someone couldn’t snap their fingers and restore all the access we have lost over the past two years,” Dingus said. “There are now states with no clinics or abortion providers — it will take years or decades to make abortion accessible again in places like Missouri, … Read more
Missouri voters could undo their state’s abortion ban. Making abortion accessible is a different story.
But even if the measure passes, abortion will likely remain limited in the immediate and near future, thanks to that complex maze of anti-abortion restrictions that chipped away at abortion availability for so many years. ….. The fear she felt — the one that left her unable to tell her doctor or trust a hospital … Read more
There’s No Coming Back From Dobbs
Recent legal fights in Ohio provide a glimpse of how even sweeping abortion protections don’t automatically undo the effects of restrictions, and could lead to new ones. Last year, Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment enshrining the right to an abortion. But pro-abortion-rights advocates in the state are still fighting to throw out the state’s … Read more
States with abortion bans saw birth control prescriptions fall post-Dobbs, study finds
A primary reason for the trend, the study posits, is that abortion bans enacted after the Dobbs decision in June 2022 led abortion and family planning clinics in those states — facilities where many women accessed birth control prescriptions — to close. The new laws also created confusion over whether emergency contraceptives, including Plan B, remained legal … Read more
What happens to clinics after a state bans abortion? They fight to survive.
Voters in several states will likely have the chance to reverse their states’ abortion bans this November — but the election results could come too late for clinics that have been forced to scale back or even shut down while those bans were in effect. Read more at 19th News
Dozens of independent abortion clinics closed in 2023 post-Roe, study finds
The group found that 23 independently owned clinics closed this year, on top of the 42 that shuttered in 2022, leaving over a dozen states, mainly in the American south and midwest, without a single brick-and-mortar clinic that provides abortion. Read more at The Guardian
A Year After Roe’s Demise, The Abortion Migration Strains Remaining Clinics
While out-of-state visitors comprised around 20% of PPRM’s patients before the Dobbs decision, that population now makes up more than half of its patients, Mansaneres said. Around 90% of them are coming from Texas, with large swaths traveling from Oklahoma, Idaho and Wyoming as well. The average distance for a patient traveling to the region … Read more
How many miles do you have to travel to get abortion care? One professor maps it
Just a year ago, “less than 1% of the U.S. population was more than 200 miles from a provider and the average person was 25 miles from a provider,” she explains. As of April 2023, she says, 14% of the population is more than 200 miles from the nearest abortion facility, and the average American … Read more
More bans and creative clinics: the future of abortion access in a post-Roe US
But the reality cannot be overstated: by October, 66 clinics across 15 US states were known to have closed, more than 80% of the total of 79 clinics open in June in those states. As of last summer, about 33 million women of child-bearing age lived in states that had or were poised to ban … Read more