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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

As funding dries up, private abortion clinics across the US are closing

A woman in a colorful jacket, black T-shirt and jeans stands in a clinic with her hands behind her back
Kwajelyn Jackson, executive director of Feminist Women's Health Center, stands in an operation room. Photograph: Sharon Johnson/AP

Providing abortions rarely paid the bills for Kwajelyn Jackson in 2024.

As the executive director of Feminist Women’s Health Center, an abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson spent the year navigating Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, dwindling financial support for abortion patients and soaring inflation. The clinic spent more money than it brought in from providing abortions, especially as Jackson strove to pay her staffers a decent wage and the clinic often subsidized the abortions of patients who could not afford to pay.

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