Abortions halted at clinic in Arkansas while new site sought

LITTLE ROCK—Planned Parenthood says it's stopped providing medication-induced abortions at its facility in northwest Arkansas while it seeks a new location, leaving the state for now with two abortion providers.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains Chief Executive Officer Brandon Hill said in a court filing over the weekend that the organization stopped providing abortions at its health center in Fayetteville, located 140 miles (226 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, while it looks for a new site.

The drop in Arkansas' available providers comes as neighboring Missouri faces the prospect of becoming the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since 1974, the year after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that legalized the procedure nationwide.

Planned Parenthood doesn't offer surgical abortions at the Fayetteville clinic or its Little Rock facility but an unaffiliated clinic, Little Rock Family Planning Services, does.

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