{"id":1767327,"date":"2022-12-08T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767327"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:03:43","slug":"following-dobbs-decision-closures-of-independent-abortion-clinics-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/following-dobbs-decision-closures-of-independent-abortion-clinics-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Dobbs Decision, Closures of Independent Abortion Clinics Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffollowing-dobbs-decision-closures-of-independent-abortion-clinics-double%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767327&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1205387879-e1653222326956-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Double the amount of independent abortion clinics closed in 2022 compared to 2021 since the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/24\/supreme-court-overrules-roe-v-wade-in-dobbs\/\">overruled<\/a> <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-06\/twice-as-many-abortion-clinics-closed-in-2022-as-last-year\">according<\/a> to Bloomberg, which cited a <a href=\"https:\/\/abortioncarenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/communities-need-clinics-2022.pdf\">report<\/a> from the Abortion Care Network (ACN).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By November, 42 independent abortion clinics closed, mostly in the South and Midwest, compared to 20 clinic closures in 2021. The report noted that independent clinics provide 55 percent of abortions nationwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><span>\u201cThere are several reasons for clinic closures; in 2022, the overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was the clearest and most immediate,\u201d according to the report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Twice as many abortion clinics closed this year compared to last, following the US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ji9PqIHX2v\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ji9PqIHX2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bloomberg Equality (@BBGEquality) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBGEquality\/status\/1600167457305624576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The ACN report stated that \u201cabortion clinics have been closing at an alarming rate with independent abortion care providers most likely to be forced to close.\u201d ACN considers a clinic closed if it is closed entirely or if it is open but no longer aborts unborn babies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><span>The ACN began tracking clinic closures in 2012 and identified 510 open independent abortion clinics in the U.S. By November 2022, that number went down to 434 independent clinics, 333 of which are actually brick-and-mortar clinics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile there have been a surge of independent, online-only clinics since 2020 and a handful of brick-and-mortar clinic openings over the years, the overall number of brick-and-mortar independent clinics in the U.S. has decreased by 35 percent since 2012,\u201d according to the report. \u201cSince 2017, Abortion Care Network has identified 133 independent abortion clinic closures. Seventeen independent clinics closed in 2017; 13 closed in 2018; 27 closed in 2019; 14 closed in 2020; 20 closed in 2021.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ACN found that 14 states have no abortion clinics \u2014 a \u201cdirect result\u201d of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to send the issue of abortion back to the states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Abortion Care Network began tracking independent clinic status in 2015, there has never been a state without at least one clinic,&#8217;\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double the amount of independent abortion clinics closed in 2022 compared to 2021 since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. 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