Abortion providers take private flights to regional Queensland as coronavirus triggers industry collapse
By Emilie Gramenz
May 1, 2020
Family planning clinicians have had to charter private planes to deliver surgical abortion services in central and north Queensland, as the collapse of the domestic travel industry bites.
The only surgical abortion provider in Rockhampton and Townsville — Marie Stopes — runs clinics once a week, using a mixture of local staff and clinicians from Brisbane or elsewhere.