Planned Parenthood of Michigan

When the last clinic offering abortion in the Upper Peninsula closed, a local urgent care started offering abortion pills to help fill the gap. Now it could be a national model for a new kind of abortion access.

Some 14,500 Medicaid patients in Michigan must now pay out-of-pocket or go elsewhere for services like cancer screenings and birth control. "For so many, they're just not going to get the care that they need," one provider said.

Some 14,000 Michigan patients who rely on Medicaid will be affected, Planned Parenthood of Michigan said Friday.

Michigan Public's Kate Wells discusses her recent reporting on the financial pressures faced by some Planned Parenthood clinics.

Today, financial pressure on abortion providers, a southeast Michigan writer who wove a multi-generational story, and WMU's incoming president on mid-sized schools.

New financial pressures on clinics that provide abortion are forcing some to close their doors, even in states that protect the right to abortion.

Planned Parenthood of Michigan is closing clinics in Marquette, Petoskey, and Jackson, and consolidating two Ann Arbor centers into one. It’s also cutting 10% of staff.

A decision from the Michigan Supreme Court is required to end confusion and uncertainty about the statewide status of abortion rights, according to briefs filed by Planned Parenthood and Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The decision to overturn federal protections for access to abortions has elicited strong reactions among people on both sides of the issue. We hear from two of them.

We talk about the decision by the Supreme Court to overturn the right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade with a health care provider. We also hear from both an abortion-rights advocate and an abortion rights opponent. In between we feature a discussion with a chef about her bean muffins.