Arizona's abortion ban likely to cause people to travel for services in states where it's still legal
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Doctors and clinic leaders said there will be a scramble across the Southwest and West for abortion care in the wake of Tuesday's Arizona Supreme Court decision, which said officials may enforce an 1864 law criminalizing all abortions except when a woman's life is at stake.
"People are going to have to start looking out of state," said Dr. Maria Phillis, an Ohio OB-GYN who also has a law degree. "This is now another place where they can't go safety to access care."
Adrienne Mansanares, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, expects a flurry of calls from patients in Arizona starting this week.
Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring last spring.
DENVER — Pediatrician Patricia Braun and her team saw roughly 100 children at a community health clinic on a recent Monday. They gave flu shots and treatments for illnesses like ear infections. But Braun also did something most primary care doctors don't. She peered inside mouths searching for cavities or she brushed fluoride varnish on their teeth.