The Women's Health Center of Maryland is set to open in Cumberland this year. The center will be just across from West Virginia, where abortion is banned.
At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since the decision, according the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. The number of clinics providing abortions in those 15 states dropped from 79 to 13 by October of last year, with the remaining clinics in Georgia.
West Virginia patients seeking an abortion now have to take time off work, travel hundreds of miles and pay for lodging and other accommodations,"all to get basic health care," Quiñonez said. Since January 2022, the clinic's abortion fund has distributed $150,000 for more than 800 people, mostly West Virginia residents.
A closer clinic in Hagerstown is open for abortions during limited hours a few times a month. It provides first-trimester abortions only and doesn’t accept Maryland Medicaid — a barrier to low-income patients, Quiñonez said. Otherwise, patients must travel more than 100 miles to Pittsburgh or even further, to Baltimore or Washington, D.C.
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