At Least 73 Abortion Clinics Have Shut Down Since 2011
A Bloomberg report from late November finds that at least 73 U.S. abortion clinics have shut down since 2011, and that roughly half of these closures are due to new legislation passed in a wave of Republican-led efforts to restrict access to abortion.
Bloomberg’s Esmé Deprez reported in September that at least 58 clinics had closed. The sharp increase since then is mostly due to new restrictions in Texas that closed at least a dozen clinics.
Deprez writes:
Since 2011, legislatures in 30 mostly Republican-controlled states have passed 203 abortion restrictions, about as many as in all of the prior decade. At least 73 clinics have closed or stopped performing abortions. New laws are responsible for roughly half of the closures, while declining demand, industry consolidation, and crackdowns on unfit providers have also contributed to the drop.
According to Bloomberg’s map, clinic closures are concentrated in Texas, Arizona, California (not legislation-related), Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and on the Eastern Seaboard.
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