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For many rural women, finding maternity care outweighs concerns about abortion access
For many rural women, finding maternity care outweighs concerns about abortion access
For many rural women, finding maternity care outweighs concerns about abortion access

Published on: 01/02/2025

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Downtown Baker City, Ore., is seen on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. After more than a century, women in Baker City will no longer have access to a maternity center with the closure of St. Alphonsus' obstetrical unit, the only one of its kind in Baker County. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/reckon/2025/01/for-many-rural-women-finding-maternity-care-outweighs-concerns-about-abortion-access.html

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