Dozens of independent abortion clinics closed in 2023 post-Roe, study finds

Twenty-three ‘indie’ clinics closed this year, leaving over a dozen states without a brick-and-mortar clinic that provides abortions

Dozens of independently-owned reproductive health clinics shuttered in 2023, the year after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, according to a new report from the Abortion Care Network.

The group found that 23 independently owned clinics closed this year, on top of the 42 that shuttered in 2022, leaving over a dozen states, mainly in the American south and midwest, without a single brick-and-mortar clinic that provides abortion.