Providers hope the new clinics can help serve the surge of patients now expected to travel for abortions. MsReads via 19thnews
Some have had plans in the works for months. Others are only now figuring out where and how to relocate, and what their new presence could look like.
Before a six-week ban took effect in Texas last fall, about 55,000 abortions were performed in-state each year. Since September 1, people who traveled out of state largely went to Oklahoma for the procedure — until that state implemented its own six-week ban in May, followed by a total abortion ban in June.
Still, the new clinics won’t be able to fully account for all the people now likely to travel for abortions. CHOICES, which began scouting for its location in November, plans to open its Illinois clinic in August. At first, it will offer only medication abortions, which are most effective within the first trimester. It will take another three to six months before they have new staff trained to do the surgical procedures required for second-trimester abortions.
A sign welcoming patients from East Texas is displayed in the waiting area of the Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, in June 2022.
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