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The tiny Baker County health department offers lots of services, including home visits by a nurse for new moms and infants. (Lillian Mongeau Hughes for KFF Health News)

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

Lillian Mongeau Hughes
A sign welcoming patients from East Texas is displayed in the waiting area of the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

More “navigators” are helping women travel to have abortions

Lillian Mongeau Hughes