Some abortion clinics in hostile states are pivoting to offer gender-affirming care, birth services, and other aid patients won’t get at crisis-pregnancy centers. andreagonram reports
Photo: Leah Willingham/AP/Shutterstock Earlier this year, Katie Quinonez, the executive director of Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, had her eyes on a vacant lot next door. Purchasing the lot would allow the state’s only abortion clinic, located in the city of Charleston, to expand.
The staff at Women’s Health Center also offers a pregnancy and parenting support program that provides diapers, baby formula, and baby clothes, among other needs.
For other providers, staying put is the goal. Despite the financial hardships it can present in the short term because of the loss of revenue from abortion services, pivoting to other health services can be a viable option in the long run, as the staff at Choices: Memphis Center for Reproductive Health knows.
The clinic’s growth is connected to operating in a region where there’s a dearth of reproductive-health services and other types of care for certain populations. The majority of the clinic’s patients are Black, from Tennessee, and between the ages of 18 and 34. Last year, around 68 percent of patients received financial assistance from Choices, demonstrating the need for health providers that offer support to low-income patients.
Texas offers us a clear picture of what could happen if these independent clinics were to close down: Twenty-two of the 41 clinics in the state shuttered after a law passed in 2013 requiring clinics to operate like ambulatory surgical centers and employ providers with admitting privileges at local hospitals. While the Supreme Court struck down the measure in 2016, only four of the shuttered providers came back.
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