Overland Park, Kansas
Dr. Iman Alsaden is a medical director for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, and she mentioned that her organization already knows what a post-Roe w. Wade landscape might turn out like.
Texas’ ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy already took effect in September, as 2500% of patients from Texas came to her group’s clinics in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Dr. Iman Alsaden described how, alongside her colleagues, she has regularly treated patients who fled their communities to seek care. She described how many of those patients were forced to drive hours in order to have their appointments on time and to struggle organizing travel and childcare arrangements.
