Why so many clinics that provide abortion are closing, even where it’s still legal

May 16, 2025
Michigan Public Radio, by Kate Wells
4-Minute Listen, with Transcript

On the last day of patient care at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette, Mich., a port town on the shore of Lake Superior, dozens of people crowded into the parking lot and alley, holding pink homemade signs that read "Thank You!" and "Forever Grateful."

"Oh my god," physician assistant Anna Rink gasped, as she and three other Planned Parenthood employees finally walked outside. The crowd whooped and cheered. Then Rink addressed the gathering.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5397314/planned-parenthood-clinics-abortion-close-telehealth-rights

USA – ‘Perfect storm’ of crises is leading to cutbacks in abortion care, advocates say

By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick
August 14, 2024

Advocates for abortion access say compounding crises of abortion bans, rising economic costs and systemic health care issues are beginning to cause significant funding challenges and potential disruptions to reproductive care of all kinds.

Several people described it as a “perfect storm” of problems with the U.S. health care system, particularly post-pandemic, and the rise of abortion bans and other reproductive care restrictions in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022. Many individuals must now travel hundreds or thousands of miles to seek abortion care, and the consolidation of demand at a smaller number of clinics is increasing wait times, which means pregnancies progress to a more advanced stage and the costs balloon further.

Continued: https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/08/14/perfect-storm-of-crises-is-leading-to-cutbacks-in-abortion-care-advocates-say/

14.08.2024

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Abortion Care Network

Abortion Fund of Ohio

abortion funds

barriers to abortion

Brittany Fonteno

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Erin Grant

Florida Access Network

Keep Our Clinics

Lexis Dotson-Dufault

Lisa Humes-Schulz

National Abortion Federation

National Network of Abortion Funds

Nicole Clegg

Oriaku Njoku

patient assistance funds

Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England

Project 2025

Stephanie Loraine Piñeiro

What It’s Like to Be Denied an Abortion in Your State

By Nancy Davis
1/18/2024

When Nancy Davis was denied an abortion for a nonviable fetus in her home state of Louisiana in 2022, she took her story to media outlets in an attempt to draw attention to what she sees as a fundamental injustice that disproportionately affects Black women like her. Davis, the mother of an 18-year-old, a 14-year-old, and a 2-year-old, is now an outspoken advocate for reproductive justice. She formed the Nancy Davis Foundation to help other women in similar situations. As part of that work, she has organized the upcoming Voices For Change March on Baton Rouge, which falls on Jan. 21, a day before the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Davis told us about the trauma of being denied critical healthcare, what it was like to travel out of state to obtain her abortion, and why she continues to use her voice for others. Read it all, in her own words, below.

Continued: https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/travel-for-abortion-nancy-davis-49330698

18.01.2024

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abortion story

Nancy Davis

Nancy Davis Foundation

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York

The Brigid Alliance

Voices for Change March

women's abortion stories

USA – Malpractice lawsuits over denied abortion care may be on the horizon

Sunday, June 25, 2023
Harris Meyer

A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might face criminal prosecution or loss of their medical license.

Some experts predict those providers could soon face a new legal threat: medical malpractice lawsuits alleging they harmed patients by failing to provide timely, necessary abortion care.

Continued: https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/06/25/malpractice-lawsuits-over-denied-abortion-care-may-be-on-the-horizon/

USA – Why an independent abortion clinic is suing Planned Parenthood

Melissa Jeltsen with photographs by Thalía Juárez
Tue 6 Jun 2023

In a sign of tensions within the abortion rights community, a Manhattan clinic alleges the reproductive health behemoth poached one of its doctors, bringing it to the ‘point of implosion’

Parkmed NYC, an independent abortion clinic on the east side of Manhattan, is located in a nondescript office building that also houses the Ecuadorian consulate. Five days a week, the clinic is flooded with patients, many of whom have traveled long distances by bus, train or plane to evade abortion bans in their home states.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/abortion-clinic-suing-planned-parenthood

06.06.2023

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Abortion Care Network

independent abortion clinics

Katharine Morrison

Parkmed NYC

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York

USA – Abortion-rights attorneys help patients and providers navigate legal chaos

BY: SOFIA RESNICK
APRIL 20, 2023

These days Kylee Sunderlin is often the first person people will talk to about needing or wanting to terminate a pregnancy, even though she’s not a nurse or doctor or a loved one. She’s a lawyer.

This is Sunderlin’s third year overseeing a national hotline dedicated to helping people navigate legal questions around abortion in their states. Calls have been at an all-time high, she said, as have callers’ fear and confusion.

Continued; https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/04/20/abortion-rights-attorneys-help-patients-and-providers-navigate-legal-chaos/

It’s the 100th anniversary of the first conference on birth control. Here’s a look at contraception’s lesser-known legacy.

Hannah Good, The Lily
November 6, 2021

One hundred years ago, a group of prominent doctors, social workers, economists and advocates convened at what was then called the Hotel Plaza in New York City for a first of its kind conference. Their aim was to explore the benefits and legality of a technology that was simultaneously novel and impossibly ancient: birth control.

“Our definite aim is to repeal the laws so that the medical profession may give women at their request knowledge to prevent conception,” organizer Margaret Sanger said in her opening speech at the conference. “We believe that with the assistance of the intelligent members of the community we can bring this about in a very short time, but we need your help.”

Continued: https://www.thelily.com/its-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-first-conference-on-birth-control-heres-a-look-at-contraceptions-lesser-known-legacy/

USA – Clinic Workers Should Be Central to the Fight for Abortion Rights

If there are any gains to be made for reproductive rights in the coming years, they will begin with the workers in clinics all across the United States — not with the politicians on Capitol Hill.

BY NIC MURRAY
Jan 17, 2021

This month will bring to a close one of the harshest administrations on reproductive rights in recent history; what has been less clear in the weeks since the election is what exactly the Biden administration will do to defend and extend these rights.

As an issue, abortion has long motivated the
bases of both parties, and the stance of a candidate can turn out large numbers
of single-issue voters. Despite the ongoing assault on reproductive rights,
however, the Democratic Party has been much less vocal on the topic recently,
barely giving it a mention at their national convention in August. The death of
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the nomination of Amy Coney
Barrett looked set to place the issue front and center six weeks out from the
election, but by polling day, it had faded back into the background.

Continued: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/abortion-reproductive-rights-planned-parenthood

17.01.2021

clinic workers

Covid-19 and abortion

Joe Biden

Nic Murray

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York

ReproJobs

Roe v. Wade

USA – How Anti-Abortion Advocates Are Co-opting and Twisting Calls for Racial Justice

“It’s like the anti-abortion movement
out-pivoted the reproductive rights movement on race.”

Aug 14, 2020
Becca Andrews

The argument seemed reasonable in theory: “We are pleased that our state values
life no matter an individual’s potential disability, gender, or race.”

In reality, it wasn’t.

Back in March 2016, Mike Fichter, the president and chief executive of Indiana
Right to Life, was talking about the law then-Gov. Mike Pence just signed that
would bar “the knowing provision of sex-, race-, or disability-selective
abortions by abortion providers.” The bill was not nearly as innocuous as
Fichter and his ideological peers in state government made it seem. In fact,
the legislation, colloquially known as a “reasons ban,” operates very much on
racist and ableist assumptions—and has the power to inflict acute harm on
pregnant individuals.

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/abortion-reasons-ban-race-justice-language/

14.08.2020

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Featured

American Birth Control League

Anti-Abortion Crusaders: Inside the African-American Abortion Battle

anti-choice deception

anti-choice hypocrisy

anti-choice misogyny

anti-choice racism

anti-choice restrictions

Ben Carson

Black Lives Matter

Box v. Planned Parenthood

Indiana Right to Life

Justice Clarence Thomas

Kristan Hawkins

Margaret Sanger

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York

race-selective abortion

reasons ban

Rev. Clenard Childress Jr.

Star Parker

Students for Life of America

USA – I’m a Proud Abortion Provider. Here’s Why.

I’m a Proud Abortion Provider. Here’s Why.
I feel that every day is National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers because of the immense appreciation I receive from my patients, day in and day out.

Mar 10, 2020
Sunoz Soroosh

Every day, I walk through the doors of the Planned Parenthood health center where I work with a smile, often singing along to a song playing on my headphones. Many find this surprising considering there are usually anti-abortion protesters outside the health center taunting me and my patients or trying to convince me to “find a better job.”

They fail to realize I’m proud to be an abortion provider who puts patients first.

Continued: https://rewire.news/article/2020/03/10/im-a-proud-abortion-provider-heres-why/

10.03.2020