Urgent Care Clinics Move to Fill Abortion Care Gaps in Rural Areas

Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap?

Providing abortions was the last thing Shawn Brown thought she’d be doing when she opened an urgent care clinic in Marquette, a small port town on the remote shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.But she also wasn’t expecting the Planned Parenthood in Marquette to shut down last spring. Roughly 1,100 patients relied on that clinic each year for cancer screenings, IUD insertions, and medication abortions. Now the area has no other in-person resour…

'Really Exciting': NPR Rejoices as Abortion Access Spreads Via Urgent Care Clinics and Pills

National Public Radio regularly crosses the line separating pro-abortion bias (practically a given at elitist media outlets) to outright abortion advocacy, painting it as a useful health care procedure in two stories. Kate Wells reported Wednesday on the question dear to the heart of NPR: “As abortion access shrinks, could urgent care centers help?”,  a story by Kate Wells “produced in partnership with KFF Health News.” Providing abortions was t…

Urgent Care Clinics Move To Fill Abortion Care Gaps in Rural Areas

MARQUETTE, Mich. — Providing abortions was the last thing Shawn Brown thought she’d be doing when she opened an urgent care clinic in this remote town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But she also wasn’t expecting the Planned Parenthood in Marquette to shut down last spring. Roughly 1,100 patients relied on that clinic each year for cancer screenings, IUD insertions, and medication abortions. Now the area has no other in-person resource for aborti…

In states where abortion is legal, urgent care centers could become model for care

In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, an urgent care center is seeing patients who want a medication abortion. It's a model other states can use when operating a reproductive rights clinic becomes too hard.

Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap? - TPR: The Public's Radio

When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar clinics close in blue states. The post Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.