Urgent care clinics move to fill abortion care gaps in rural areas

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KFF Health News Apr 8 2026 Providing abortions was the last thing Shawn Brown thought she'd be doing when she opened an urgent care clinic in this remote town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. But she also wasn't expecting the Planned Parenthood in Marquette to shut down last spring. Roughly 1,100 patients relied on that clinic each year for cancer screenings, IUD insertions, and medication abortions. Now the area has no other in-person resource for abortions. "It's a 500-mile stretch of no access,

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Urgent care clinics move to fill abortion care gaps in rural areas https://www.news-medical.net - 08.04.2026 14:21