More out-of-staters travel to Nebraska to get abortions
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March 13, 2024
Yanqi Xu | Flatwater Free Press
An anti-abortion picketer says the Hail Mary prayer on the sidewalk next to the Clinics for Abortion and Reproductive Excellence location in Bellevue on March 1, 2024. Anti-abortion protesters come on days abortion services are provided, clinic escorts say.
Nebraska is now down to one surgical abortion provider less than a year after lawmakers passed a 12-week ban.
The Bellevue clinic founded by the late Dr. LeRoy Carhart – once one of only three providers in the country to perform third-trimester abortions – no longer does surgical procedures but does offer patients abortion pills, clinic employees confirmed to the Flatwater Free Press.
That means Nebraskans who want a surgical abortion or who are past the cutoff for the abortion pill must go to Planned Parenthood, their sole legal option left in the state.
Nebraskans' options are dwind...
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