Planned Parenthood opens Illinois clinic offering abortion services
Ashley Coffield (left), CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, poses with Jennifer Welch (right), CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, at the new Carbondale health center. (Courtesy Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi)
Easily accessible for out-of-state patients, Planned Parenthood’s Carbondale health center is just four miles from the clinic Memphis-based Choices Center for Reproductive Care opened shortly after Tennessee banned abortion.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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