The nonprofit did not dispute that it had ended abortion services before the law required it to do so.
The Oklahoma clinics’ reasoning was a bit different. The locations that stopped providing legal abortions in Oklahoma are operated by Planned Parenthood Great Plains, an affiliate that also runs clinics in Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.
The locations did eventually get buy-in from staff members to continue providing abortions up to six weeks, Wales said. But by the time they made the decision and prepared to start again, the Oklahoma legislature had passed the total ban. So they never resumed abortion care.To be clear, the Oklahoma Planned Parenthood locations are dealing with immense logistical challenges.
Zack Gingrich-Gaylord, the communications director at Trust Women, said he did not take issue with Planned Parenthood’s strategy. “It’s very difficult for me to question their decision-making in that, because I know how much goes into even getting to the point of providing care in this area, and all the things that derail it at any moment,” he said. “Even a frivolous lawsuit—I know, for us, that would be a very big drain on our resources.
It’s hard to say how many abortions Planned Parenthood’s two Oklahoma locations could have provided in the final weeks before the total ban began. In Texas, providers have been stunned by how many patients are catching their pregnancies early and making it into clinics before the six-week mark. When I visited a Houston abortion clinic in April, a nurse told me that Texans “AdvertisementAccording to Gingrich-Gaylord, the landscape looked different in Oklahoma.
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