Four months after end of Roe: Mobile clinics, radio ads for home abortions and free vasectomies

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ST. LOUIS — From a mobile abortion clinic traveling along the Illinois border to more men seeking sterilizations, doctors, advocates and patients are responding in new ways to the post-Roe landscape that has left millions of women unable to get an elective abortion in their home states.

In the past month, radio ad campaigns have been launched in states where abortion is banned to inform listeners how to get medication abortion pills in the mail. And an abortion clinic relocated from Memphis, Tennessee, where abortion is banned, to Carbondale, becoming the nearest abortion clinic for many people across the South.

Midwest Access Coalition, an abortion fund relying on volunteers to help cover travel expenses for women seeking abortions, has tripled its staff since spring, going from two full-time employees to six plus a part-timer.

Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, joined staff on Tuesday in cheering the delivery of a mobile abortion clinic — the first in the U.S. for Planned Parenthood.

“This is truly an all-hands-on-deck moment, where we need everybody to be thinking innovatively and boldly and taking steps to do things a little bit differently,” McNicholas said after touring the 37-foot RV equipped with two exam rooms.