Clinics are bracing themselves for the next phase of America’s long abortion war
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Jennifer Pepper, the clinic’s chief executive, says she hopes it will provide a model for other independent abortion clinics in a post-America. Planned Parenthood, the biggest provider of abortions in America, has long offered other health-care services, but most independent—that is, not affiliated with Planned Parenthood—clinics, which carry out nearly 60% of abortions in America, tend to focus on abortions .
But focusing on abortion has left clinics vulnerable. Many, including some in states that are friendly to abortion rights, have closed. The Abortion Care Network, which represents independent clinics, says that in 2012 America had 510 of them. In 2021 there were 358. Since 2016, it says, 113 independent clinics have closed. Of these, 18 were in California, six in New York and several in other states broadly supportive of abortion rights, including New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Another development, the full effects of which are yet to be seen, is the increasing use of abortion medication. During the pandemic, the Food and Drug Administration dropped a requirement that women collect the first of two drugs used from a health-care provider in person. Women can now be prescribed the pills via telemedicine consultation and receive them in the post.
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