New standards for abortion clinics, including those that require
clinic physicians to have admitting privileges at a hospital, will cause some clinics to close. These clinics provide services other than abortions, however, and these closings will severely restrict women’s access to healthcare in some areas.
Services typically offered at such family planning clinics include STI testing, mammograms, pap smears, cancer screenings, family planning counseling and birth control, often at lower fees for uninsured women, according to the report.
Numerous reports have detailed the importance of these clinics for the uninsured. A 2012 study from the Guttermacher institute found that 40 percent of women surveyed at family planning clinics had received exclusive care at those clinics for the past year.
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