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Posted on 10/20/2025 5:41:03 AM PDT by Morgana
When the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette closed in April, it was the only clinic providing abortion medication in the Upper Peninsula.
Healthcare options were already limited in the vast, remote region. The next-closest Planned Parenthood clinic is now a roughly five-hour drive south. While the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette didn’t offer procedural abortion, it did provide more than a thousand patients per year services like cancer screenings, birth control and medication abortion.
“All of these reproductive health care services, for a big chunk of the population here, were put into jeopardy,” said Dr. Viktoria Koskenoja, a local emergency medicine physician and former Planned Parenthood of Michigan (PPMI) employee.
The small, tightly-knit network of local healthcare workers and community members started meeting, brainstorming ways to fill the gaps. “The most important thing that we felt we needed to replace immediately, was access to in-person abortion services,” Koskenoja said.
PPMI and other virtual providers were already offering abortion pills online, which are available in Michigan until 11 weeks of pregnancy. PPMI says the organization has seen an 18% increase in telehealth appointments for U.P. patients in the first three months since it(?) REMIND US WHAT CLOSED closed.
ALTHOUGH, for patients who need ultrasounds to determine the stage of their pregnancies, don’t have reliable internet access, or just want to talk face-to-face with a medical professional they know and trust, virtual care isn’t an option, Koskenoja said.
“But I think a lot more people, they feel isolated and they need to be able to just sit in a room with somebody who cares, who can explain what their options are and what they’re going to go through,” said Dr. Shawn Brown, the medical director and owner of Marquette Medical Urgent Care.
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Usually these clinics are owned by a private company, does anyone in Michigan know who owns this one?
What an irony! I mean, isn’t Planned Parenthood’s stated purpose to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare” because they provide birth control measures like oral contraceptives, condoms, etc...?
And now (after 40 years) it’s like abortion is the only option!
“Lawdy Miss Scarlett! I don’t know nuffin about how to stop gettin preg-nit!!”
From last year, a little backround...
https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2024/02/15/new-urgent-care-facility-opens-marquette/
“And now (after 40 years) it’s like abortion is the only option!
“Lawdy Miss Scarlett! I don’t know nuffin about how to stop gettin preg-nit!!””
Exactly! Her local CVS or Walgreens sells condoms or even O Pill but what does she do? She goes to Urgent Care for the abortion pill. Why? Because abortion is their contraception.
(Because abortion is their contraception.)
Absolutely correct
Abortion isn’t “healthcare”. It’s murder.
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