North Dakota's only abortion clinic will be moving across the border.

[Ocelot II]

When the news came, the director of the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo and two staff members started to cry.

Not 30 seconds later, the phone rang. When Kromenaker answered, it was a patient wanting to make an appointment for an abortion: a young mother with an infant who didn't feel prepared to have another child....

Kromenaker is currently scrambling to move her independent abortion provider operations across the Red River to Moorhead. North Dakota is one of 13 states with a trigger ban, meaning abortion will become illegal there a month after Roe v. Wade being overturned. Minnesota has no such ban.

She already has a location. She plans to have the new clinic open by the time abortion services are illegal in North Dakota so there will be no interruption in services for women in the area seeking abortions.

https://www.startribune.com/north-dakotas-only-abortion-provider-making-plans-to-move-across-border-to-minnesota/600185078/

I wonder how many clinics in other states will be able to move to other states? Fargo is right on the border so this move was manageable, but it might not be so easy in other places - especially in states surrounded by equally retrograde states.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. The Red River Clinic is currently raising funds to make the move across the river. People can donate

here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/red-river-womens-clinic-new-location

[Ocelot II]

5. They've raised $485K already!

[Thunderbeast]

2. Planned Parenthood - Oregon is opening a clinic within an hour of Boisle, Idaho

Abortion rights are enshrined in Oregon's Constitution.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/06/24/friday-update-planned-parenthood-to-open-eastern-oregon-clinic-as-others-plan-rallies-to-protest-supreme-court-decision/

[jmowreader]

6. There are also Planned Parenthood clinics in Spokane...

Spokane Valley and Clarkston. Washington was one of two states - New York was the other - to have abortion on request before Roe, so unless those assholes in the GOP write a nationwide ban those clinics are safe and the west side of Idaho’s abortion needs will continue to be met. North Idaho has always gone to WA for abortion because, as far as I know, we’ve never had a clinic up here.

I am worried about the southeast - the part that looks like the toe of a boot. The two states closest to that area are Wyoming and Utah, both of which have trigger laws. Montana currently does not, but all the Planned Parenthood clinics in Montana are farther from, say, Pocatello than Ontario is. You’d be better off driving to Oregon.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Curious that if the Feds regulate interstate commerce, how can the states regulate, lets say,

a train hospital going from state to state, that performs medical procedures enroute?

[MineralMan]

4. I'm glad they'll be able to move across the state line.

I'm pissed off that they have to, though.