{"id":79895,"date":"2015-11-13T07:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=79895"},"modified":"2015-11-12T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T02:08:41","slug":"surprise-abortion-clinics-closing-just-much-blue-states-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/surprise-abortion-clinics-closing-just-much-blue-states-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Abortion clinics closing just as much in blue states as in red"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the Guardian, Molly Redden has a very interesting piece<\/a> that, despite her best efforts to fit the square peg into a round hole, would seem to severely undermine the idea that America\u2019s women are in desperate need of abortion access\u2014that alongside the wave of abortion clinics closing due to new laws by big mean anti-choice extremists, \u201cclinics are closing just as fast in traditionally abortion-friendly states \u2013 without many people noticing\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Exact numbers for clinic closures are hard to come by. A rough count by the Abortion Care Network, though, found that for every three clinics that closed in a red state in the past few years, two clinics closed in a more liberal state \u2013 one of the 17 states where Medicaid covers abortion, or one of 23 states that the Guttmacher Institute, a thinktank that supports reproductive rights, does not consider hostile to abortion access. A list compiled by the Guardian of more than 50 clinics that closed for good in 2014 shows that a little more than half were located in blue states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Redden cites a number of excuses why abortion itself isn\u2019t the problem…<\/p>\n