'It’s frightening for me to think about someone essentially being forced to carry a pregnancy because of our public health situation right now.”
In Tennessee, a person considering terminating a pregnancy must wait 48 hours after stating their intent at a clinic. At Choices, a 70-year-old retired physician was doing that intake work while another, younger doctor performed surgical abortions a few times a week. Confirmed coronavirus cases are up to nearly 200 in Tennessee, and in Memphis, many businesses closed last week. Choices’ elderly doctor was working “in our conference room with a plexiglass shield in front of him,” says Leopard.
The center’s negotiations mirror those of other abortion providers, who in addition to addressing issues that have hobbled many businesses during the pandemic, do vital work that requires close contact between patients and doctors. And given the constraints of state and federal law, clinic workers and clients have historically been forced to travel long distances to facilitate care.
Burkhart is the founder of Trust Women, an organization that currently operates two clinics—one in Wichita, Kansas, the other in Oklahoma City. When I reached her on Friday she was scrambling to find a way to keep her doctors safe while they traveled.
Burkhart’s clinics draw patients from all over the country. People are still driving from Texas and Kansas, making long trips to get the care they need. Melissa Grant, the chief operations officer of Carafem, a network of four clinics in Maryland, Illinois, Tennessee, and Georgia, is concerned that patient travel may be more difficult as the economy stalls.
All of which concerns Grant, considering it appears travel will become much more difficult, if not impossible, for women who need care: “Abortion care has an urgency that some other medical care doesn’t,” she says, “because the further that a pregnancy progresses, the more complicated it can be to receive that care.” She’s hoping to enroll her Maryland clinic in the Gynuity study as early as this week.
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