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Within 18 months, a foundation loan allowed the clinic to move to a remodeled former private home in Midtown Memphis. In the early years following the Roe v. Wade decision there was prominent public support for the provision of quality abortion services. Abortion was viewed, even in Tennessee, as a matter of women's public health.
In 2014, 96% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 63% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [30] In 2017, there were four Planned Parenthood clinics, all of which offered abortion services, in a state with a population of 1,519,130 women aged 15–49. [31]
I worked at North Texas clinics. They didn't just provide abortions — they provided autonomy for women across the region
Some of these costs are offset by abortion funds, but many clinics still struggle to remain operational. [9] Independent clinics may also face competition from larger abortion care providers, such as Planned Parenthood. When the Yakima branch of the Cedar River Clinics closed its doors in 2010 after thirty years of operation, it cited the ...
She gave the caller the number to Hope Clinic for Women, an abortion provider in Granite City, Illinois, nearly 300 miles away. “As the day went on, it didn’t get easier,” she said.
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Christ Community Health Services was founded in 1995 in Memphis, Tennessee by four doctors, Rick Donlon, David Pepperman, Karen Miller, and Steven Besh. [7] With a budget of around $46 million a year Christ Community Health Services employs a variety of health care workers ranging from dentists, doctors, pharmacists and behavioral health experts; total employment at Christ Community Health ...
The medical emergency exception in Tennessee's abortion ban is unclear, a Tennessee court has ruled, barring the state from enforcing the ban in case of certain medical conditions while a lawsuit ...