In states where abortion is legal, urgent care centers could become model for care

NPR | By Kate Wells

Published April 8, 2026 at 2:45 AM MDT

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In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, an urgent care center is seeing patients who want a medication abortion. It's a model other states can use when operating a reproductive rights clinic becomes too hard.

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