'It's just been really busy,' Laurie Casey, the executive director, said. 'We're trying to be as flexible as we can, especially with people coming out of state. A lot of our patients - even if they're from Minnesota - travel one to three hours each way to get here. So we try to be as accommodating as we can.'
DULUTH, Minn. -- On the top floor of a modest two-story brick building near the shore of Lake Superior, the executive director of northern Minnesota's only abortion clinic flits from room to room, checking in patients, fielding phone calls from people seeking appointments and handling billing questions from those struggling to pay.
Even before Roe v. Wade was reversed, WE Health Clinic was the nearest abortion provider for some people in northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. "We haven't overcome our capacity to serve patients yet. And we are working on efficiencies so that we're ready if we do end up with a flood of patients," said Dr. Judith Johnson, one of three doctors providing abortions at the clinic.
"The number of patients we serve has gone up, and the places they come from have gotten further away," Johnson said.Cassidy Thompson, a patient educator and coordinator of the clinic's volunteer patient escort program, recounted a call from a woman in Oklahoma who was"crying to me on the phone, saying, 'Can't you help me? No other clinics can take me right now.
Most of the Minnesota patients at the clinic qualify for low-income assistance to help with the cost of an abortion, but it doesn't cover the full cost of the procedure. Casey estimated that the clinic lost more than $60,000 last year by serving medical assistance patients, a deficit the clinic had to make up through fundraising.
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