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CNN reached out to local leaders in Danville to understand the intent behind the 2023 ordinance and the rights that an abortion clinic can expect as a business in the city but did not get a response.
The new clinic, just across the state line in Pittsburg, expects to serve patients in Missouri and other states. New Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas expands abortion access in Missouri, other ...
Between 2012 and 2016 the number of abortion clinics in Texas dropped from 40 to 19 [120] as a result of the state's House Bill 2, which was struck down by the US Supreme Court in June 2016. [119] After TRAP laws came into effect in Missouri and Texas, women had to travel even greater distances to be able to visit an abortion clinic. [86]
A study of the reasons given for requesting a self-managed abortion by the 57,506 individuals who requested this service between March 20, 2018, and March 20, 2020 found the reasons for requests to be: lower cost compared to a clinic (74%), privacy (49%), distance to a clinic (40%), and difficulty getting time off work or school (38%).
In 2014, there was only one abortion clinic in the state. [58] In 2014, 99% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 94% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [57] In March 2016, there were 13 Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. [59]
Texas first enacted Senate Bill 8, a six-week abortion ban, in September 2021, nine months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.
Maggie Olivia, a senior policy manager with Abortion Action Missouri, a reproductive rights advocacy group, said that Alternatives to Abortion providers often use the money to mislead women rather ...