Despite the increasingly hostile environment across the country, organizations and advocates are focused on ensuring that people can still access abortion, even in states where it will soon be illegal.
, an abortion clinic, announced plans on May 9 to open a clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, because of the impending abortion ban in Tennessee.
Advocates and organizations are also having to counter misinformation promulgated by extremists. “We are fighting misinformation and helping patients to identify crisis pregnancy centers, which are not legitimate health care clinics, getting factual, safe abortion and funding resources to the communities, including information about self-managed abortions,” said Allie Wampler, who is on the board of theand an abortion nurse and women’s health care nurse practitioner.
Ultimately, though, there won’t be any real progress until there is an even more vocal majority demanding and voting to make abortion legal and accessible everywhere. “was the floor, not the ceiling, and [abortion access] wasn't a reality for many people even before the Supreme Court overturned it,” said Ann Marie Benitez, senior director of government relations at the
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