Indiana abortion clinics see patients amid legal changes
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Source: Associated Press/ARLEIGH RODGERS and RICK CALLAHAN
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Dr. Jeanne Corwin traveled about two hours on Friday from her hometown of Cincinnati to an Indianapolis abortion clinic, where she saw the clinic’s first 12 patients the day after an Indiana judge blocked the state’s abortion ban from being enforced.
It’s a trip Corwin has made several times over the past few months, as her Ohio medical license allows her to sign off on required paperwork for Women’s Med patients in Indiana to access care in clinic’s sister location in Dayton.
But with Indiana’s abortion ban temporarily on hold — paired with a judge’s Sept. 14 block of an Ohio ban on nearly all abortions — Women’s Med and other Indiana abortion clinics resumed seeing patients on Friday while anticipating further change amid mercurial abortion access in the country following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
“It’s a glimmer of hope and common sense,” Corwin said of Thursday’s ruling blocking Indiana’s abortion ban.
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