Many Florida women can’t get abortions past 6 weeks. Where else can they go?

Since Florida enacted a six-week abortion ban, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states have sprung into action

By MAKIYA SEMINERA and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
May 4, 2024

RALEIGH, N.C. -- When Florida enacted its six-week abortion ban last week, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states sprang into action, knowing women would look to them for services no longer available where they live.

Health care providers in North Carolina, three states to the north, are rushing to expand availability and decrease wait times. “We are already seeing appointments,” said Katherine Farris, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. “We have appointments on the books with patients who were unable to get in, in the last days of April in Florida.”

Continued: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-women-abortions-past-6-weeks-109936747

USA – Ob/Gyns Face ‘Occupational Crisis’ Navigating Abortion Ban

Lara Salahi
January 25, 2024

A 14-year-old girl arrived at Angela Dempsey-Fanning's, MD, MPH, South Carolina clinic just one day after the state's anti-abortion law would have allowed her to terminate a pregnancy in instances of rape or incest.

Dempsey, an ob/gyn in Charleston, had to inform the teenager, a victim of incest, that she could not legally provide abortion care, so the girl and her mother decided to seek treatment in a different state.

Continued: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/obgyns-face-occupational-crisis-navigating-abortion-ban-2024a10001ux?form=fpf

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