Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Abortion Providers on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting

Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Mo., unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible.

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... Recovery chairs, surgical equipment and lighting from the Missouri clinic " all expensive and perfectly good " could still be useful to other health centers run by the same affiliate, Planned Parenthood Great Plains, in its three other states. Much of it went to Oklahoma, where the organization was expanding, CEO Emily Wales said.

When Oklahoma banned abortion a few years later, it was time for that equipment to move again. Some likely ended up in Kansas, Wales said, where her group has opened two new clinics within just over two years because abortion access there is protected in the state constitution " and demand is soaring.

Her Kansas clinics regularly see patients from Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and even Louisiana, as Kansas is now the nearest place to get a legal abortion for many people in the Southern United States.

Like the shuffling of equipment, America's abortion patients are traveling around the nation to navigate the patchwork of laws created by the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which left policies on abortion to the states. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-17 02:35 PM

I don't blame them. These legislatures made up of old men don't see the harm they are inflicting on real women who want to have children to cowtow to a magical sky man. As more OB/GYN's leave the state, ALL women will suffer.

Religion is the reason for most of the suffering in the world today.

Now that the body count of women who are dying because they cannot receive proper medical care in s hole red states it is time to vote out all these misogynist fools who do not listen to their residents.

Why do they refuse to put the abortion on the ballot for voters to decide and instead confine it to groups of elderly men deciding what is best for women?

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-17 03:42 PM

@#2 ... These legislatures made up of old men don't see the harm they are inflicting on real women who want to have children ...

imo, it is about the GOP wanting to control women, regardless of the outcome.

If a woman dies because she was denied the care she needed, well, that seems to be OK with the GOP because they were able to control (and subsequently, limit) the care provided to that women.




#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-17 06:19 PM

@#1 ... Like the shuffling of equipment, America's abortion patients are traveling around the nation to navigate the patchwork of laws created by the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision ...

That traveling in and of itself seems like it would take a toll on those who need to do the traveling.

At a time when they need medical care, not roadmap apps.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 12:34 PM

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