U.S. Abortion Bans Drive Patients to Seek Later-Term Procedures Amid Provider Shortages

‘There’s no place to go’: providers see more abortions later in pregnancy as bans spread in US

Patients are showing up ‘later and sicker’ for abortion care as more US states adopt bans and significant restrictions Providers are seeing more patients in need of abortions later in pregnancy as abortion bans and restrictions proliferate in US states, all while access to insurance falls. Those bans and restrictions have also meant that later abortion care access has grown over the past decade in a handful of haven states and cities. Continue reading...

By Melody Schreiber