Not exact matches
With the shortage of qualified
abortion providers (there are no
providers in 87 percent of U.S. counties and in 97 percent of rural areas), Landy and Darney have made an enormous impact in the effort to ensure that women
across the country have access to the full range of quality health care.
Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures
across the country,
abortion patients are facing new barriers to care, including the need to travel greater distances to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of
abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a
provider offers same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not access
abortion care in the first place.
The Trump administration and many social conservatives in Congress and
across state governments have put federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) front and center in their attempts to pull public funding from other types of safety - net
providers — specifically, those that provide
abortion - related services.