Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2015. In the past four years, states have enacted 231 restrictions on abortion care, which severely limit women’s access to this legal and safe procedure. Under the cloak of protecting women’s health, state legislatures, particularly in the South and Midwest, have been actively introducing and passing bills that are neither evidence-based nor backed by science, leading to a decrease in the number of abortion providers and locations where abortions care is available. To combat these restrictions and ensure that more women have access to abortion care, the Center for American Progress released a new issue brief today calling on states to increase access to abortions by allowing advance-practice clinicians, or APCs, to provide care.
