Traveling for abortions - clinics will need to expand fast

[womanofthehills]

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[Ocelot II]

1. The only clinic in North Dakota has already arranged to move

to Minnesota; it's acquired another building a few blocks across the Red River from Fargo to Moorhead in order to keep serving people without interruption.

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/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Minnesota was getting patients from Texas months ago.

[dalton99a]

3. The Free States vs. the Shit States (June 2022):

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Thank you for this map, my dear dalton99a! It is truly horrifying and scary as well. n/t

[3catwoman3]

5. If any of the current medical and nursing...

…staff from the clinics that are relocating are hoping to continue working at them, they will need to get licensed in those states. That usually takes a little time.

There are no national medical or nursing licenses.

[dalton99a]

6. Free State governors can issue a declaration

and their medical boards can issue a limited emergency/provisional license, similar to what was done during the pandemic for out-of-state practitioners