Election results could come too late for clinics that have scaled back or even shut down while bans were in effect.
Supportive messages hang on a wall of the group counseling room in the A Woman's Choice of Jacksonville clinic, which provides abortion care, on April 30, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said the clinic was able to shift quickly because it had already been diversifying its options even before the Missouri ban took effect in 2022.
When abortion bans take effect, “you’re getting less clinic revenue while also trying to continue with the same amount of overhead,” Madsen said. Providing other services, like contraception or testing for sexually transmitted infections, doesn’t pull in the same level of income. Another Florida clinic, Fort Pierce-based A Woman’s World Medical Center, has launched a GoFundMe to raise $100,000 to stay afloat through the election. Candace Dye, the clinic’s administrator, has already cut her staff’s hours because they are seeing so few patients.
These providers have some local history to look back on: When the state temporarily instituted a near-total ban in late 2022, following the overturn of
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