With No Abortion Clinic Operating In Nashville, Advocates Raise Travel Money
The suspension of abortions at Nashville's Planned Parenthood, the city's only remaining clinic, has advocates raising money to help patients travel out of town and offset the cost of a procedure that can cost more than $1,000. They say plans for an abortion fund were already in the works as access in Tennessee has dwindled.
"The reality is that before this happened, most women in Tennessee seeking abortions had to drive over 100 miles because we're just lacking access in this state," says Anna Carella, co-director of Healthy and Free Tennessee.
The suspension of abortions at Planned Parenthood's clinic in Nashville, first reported by The Tennessean, followed the closure of the Nashville Women's Center in August.
The number of clinics statewide has dropped by more than half in recent decades. As access has restricted, abortion numbers in Tennessee have dropped correspondingly, from 14,245 in 2008 to 9,732 in 2016.
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And shame on the lawmakers (ha! what a joke) that caused these essential services to be driven out.
