For decades, the Pregnancy Control Clinic, tucked inside a squat, beige building around the corner from a bowling alley, handled most of the abortions on Guam, a tiny U.S. territory 1,600 miles south of Japan.
But the doctor who ran it retired seven years ago, and the clinic now appears abandoned.
Though abortion is legal in Guam up to 13 weeks of pregnancy, and later in certain cases, the last doctor who performed abortions left Guam in 2018.
The closest abortion clinic on American soil is in Hawaii, an eight-hour flight away.
And a pending court case could soon cut off access to abortion pills, the last way for most women on Guam to get legal abortions.
Persons:
Dr, Edmund A, ”, “, Griley
Organizations:
Pregnancy Control
Locations:
Guam, Japan, Hawaii