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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ava Sasani

Dozens of independent abortion clinics closed in 2023 post-Roe, study finds

The waiting room of the Women's Health Center of West Virginia.
The waiting room of the Women's Health Center of West Virginia in Charleston on 29 June 2022. Photograph: Leah Willingham/AP

Dozens of independently owned reproductive health clinics shuttered in 2023, the year after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, according to a new report from the Abortion Care Network.

The group found that 23 independently owned clinics closed this year, on top of the 42 that shuttered in 2022, leaving over a dozen states, mainly in the American south and midwest, without a single brick-and-mortar clinic that provides abortion.

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