One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today.
LA Abortion Providers Prepare For More Patients
(
Getty Images
)
Topline:
California abortion providers are offering more appointments to handle the anticipated influx of patients from Arizona, where abortions will soon be outlawed, except to save a mother’s life. In the nearly two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, patients from states that restricted abortion have streamed into California for reproductive care.
Why now: The Arizona ban will take effect in less than two weeks.
How many Arizona patients do clinics expect? “We can assume the numbers will go back up to the roughly 13 patients a month coming to us from Arizona just because that’s what happened directly after the fall of Roe v. Wade,” said Nichole Ramirez with Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino counties.
Ramirez said the organizations has plenty of appointments available.
Why will people travel to California? California is one of 15 states that protect abortion rights.
“Arizonans will come here because you can just get on the 10 [Freeway], said Sue Dunlap, president of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. "We have multiple teaching hospitals, we’re a friendly environment, we have a very dense population, we have multiple airports.”
One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
