{"id":80057,"date":"2025-09-22T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=80057"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:40:56","slug":"trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Policies Have Now Shut Down Several Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"
Rural women are facing an ever-growing healthcare crisis. (Credit: Anna Tarazevich, Pexels<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In rural areas<\/a> of the U.S., a women\u2019s health<\/a> crisis is beginning to boil over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent statement<\/a> from the Augusta Medical Group in Virginia asserts that enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a> has resulted in several of its clinics closing throughout a significant stretch of the Appalachian Mountains \u2013 an \u201congoing response to \u2026 the resulting realities for healthcare delivery,\u201d as they termed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The loss of Medicaid funding, expected to amount to $900 billion in all over the next decade, combined with a pending crisis of uninsured Americans once the bill\u2019s work requirements for coverage go into effect, is a problem for people living in rural parts of the nation in particular. \u201cYou can expect those places to be impacted by now having people who don\u2019t even have Medicaid,\u201d Tim Layton, an associate professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy of the University of Virginia, said to CNN. \u201cWith fewer people to spread fixed costs across, it becomes harder and harder [for clinics] to stay open.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n

Related<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n \n
\n
\n \n \"\"\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n

\n \n Trump\u2019s \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019 Will Cause Big Health Woes. Women Are Here to Help\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n

Marshall Cohen, a Democratic strategist at the political firm KMM Strategies, added: \u201cRural hospitals are closing, at the end of the day. We\u2019re seeing the tip of the iceberg here in Virginia, and it\u2019s a sign of what\u2019s to come\u201d throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats had warned<\/a> about this problem ahead of the law\u2019s passage, noting that rural healthcare facilities had already been suffering before the bill was adopted. The letter of dissent also pointed out the jobs crises that result from closing these facilities down, as such hospitals provide a significant amount of work for rural Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And though the bill included a $50 billion fund for rural clinics, states must first apply for relief, and the need is such that the money \u201cwill go pretty quick,\u201d Layton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some are trying to quell the rising problem through non-legislative avenues. At the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, doulas are being trained<\/a> to work with pregnant people in the afflicted regions. \u201cWe\u2019re developing a workforce that\u2019s going to be out there, providing the support that Black women and birthing people need,\u201d Natalie Hernandez-Green, the school\u2019s executive director, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angel Foster of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project \u2013 which assists thousands of patients per month by prescribing and sending abortion pills primarily to U.S. states where abortion is banned or restricted \u2013 added to us<\/a> that attacking the problem from a variety of directions will yield the best results for those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter what, she said, it\u2019s important that Americans \u201cdo not comply in advance\u201d to circumstances that would see rural women\u2019s health \u2013 or anyone\u2019s health \u2013 further compromised. Rather, we must \u201cpush back on all kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n

Related<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n \n
\n
\n \n \"RFK\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n

\n \n Herd Immunity is Now Dangerously Low. Children (and Women) Will Suffer Most\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n

Note: This article has been updated to correct Layton’s work. He was previously cited as an associate law professor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to those working in the medical industry, the recently enacted \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d has directly caused the closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":80058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"Rural women are facing an ever-growing healthcare crisis.","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:l2n6ydtigm3gtra4vb4rfl7f","date":"2025-09-22T16:13:49+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:l2n6ydtigm3gtra4vb4rfl7f\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzgshg66st2m","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:l2n6ydtigm3gtra4vb4rfl7f\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzgshg66st2m\",\"cid\":\"bafyreiaoeujddwxvwmkxsstr5ocbhg5ssv7h3wgi6mxgx4ukx3hptyueka\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreiggwltiiw24h77pvj2yyh5lrc7gn7gjmtfhqgh72l6oz46jvqrlku\",\"rev\":\"3lzgshg6gmt2m\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"},{"did":"did:plc:l2n6ydtigm3gtra4vb4rfl7f","date":"2025-09-22T16:13:50+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:l2n6ydtigm3gtra4vb4rfl7f\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzgshik3js2g","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:l2n6ydtigm3gtra4vb4rfl7f\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzgshik3js2g\",\"cid\":\"bafyreihnxwkaazngithqhfklebpy3ce6crakq2dlyndg5wempytr25iwd4\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreigvdp7suhctc44vj2wpldj23bckug5vbhzqrlzasijku6h7f4tuae\",\"rev\":\"3lzgshikgbk2g\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[21441,21440,19641],"class_list":["post-80057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happening-now","tag-medicaid-funding","tag-rural-healthcare-crisis","tag-womens-health"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow Trump Policies Are Closing Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to those working in the medical industry, the recently enacted \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d has directly caused the closures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Policies Have Now Shut Down Several Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to those working in the medical industry, the recently enacted \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d has directly caused the closures.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Story Exchange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheStoryExchange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-22T16:13:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-24T13:40:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Womens-Healthcare-Rural-Women-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Trump.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1094\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Candice Helfand-Rogers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TheStoryXchange\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TheStoryXchange\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Candice Helfand-Rogers\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How Trump Policies Are Closing Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics","description":"According to those working in the medical industry, the recently enacted \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d has directly caused the closures.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Trump\u2019s Policies Have Now Shut Down Several Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics","og_description":"According to those working in the medical industry, the recently enacted \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d has directly caused the closures.","og_url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/","og_site_name":"The Story Exchange","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheStoryExchange","article_published_time":"2025-09-22T16:13:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-09-24T13:40:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":1094,"url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Womens-Healthcare-Rural-Women-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Trump.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Candice Helfand-Rogers","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@TheStoryXchange","twitter_site":"@TheStoryXchange","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Candice Helfand-Rogers","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/"},"author":{"name":"Candice Helfand-Rogers","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#\/schema\/person\/f5204a83b27f87166174a6de31eaafc9"},"headline":"Trump\u2019s Policies Have Now Shut Down Several Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics","datePublished":"2025-09-22T16:13:45+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-24T13:40:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/"},"wordCount":513,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Womens-Healthcare-Rural-Women-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Trump.jpg","keywords":["Medicaid Funding","Rural Healthcare Crisis","Women's Health"],"articleSection":["Quick Takes"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/","url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/","name":"How Trump Policies Are Closing Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Womens-Healthcare-Rural-Women-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Trump.jpg","datePublished":"2025-09-22T16:13:45+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-24T13:40:56+00:00","description":"According to those working in the medical industry, the recently enacted \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d has directly caused the closures.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Womens-Healthcare-Rural-Women-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Trump.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Womens-Healthcare-Rural-Women-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Trump.jpg","width":1280,"height":1094,"caption":"Women's Healthcare Rural Women Big Beautiful Bill Trump"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/trumps-policies-have-now-shut-down-several-rural-womens-health-clinics\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump\u2019s Policies Have Now Shut Down Several Rural Women\u2019s Health Clinics"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/","name":"The Story Exchange","description":"Inspiration and information for women entrepreneurs","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#organization","name":"The Story Exchange","url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cdn1.thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24161459\/TSE-logo-web-e1525383604615.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cdn1.thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/24161459\/TSE-logo-web-e1525383604615.png","width":500,"height":180,"caption":"The Story Exchange"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheStoryExchange","https:\/\/x.com\/TheStoryXchange","https:\/\/instagram.com\/thestoryexchange\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-story-exchange","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/StoryExchange"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/#\/schema\/person\/f5204a83b27f87166174a6de31eaafc9","name":"Candice Helfand-Rogers","description":"Candice Helfand-Rogers has worked as a journalist for some of the largest news organizations in the country over the course of her career, including CBS Local News and The Star-Ledger. She earned her B.A. in Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. In her spare time, she enjoys singing with several ensembles in New York City and spending time with her son. Please contact candice@thestoryexchange.org with questions or pitches.","sameAs":["https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/author\/candice-leigh-helfand\/"],"url":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/author\/candice-leigh-helfand\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80136,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80057\/revisions\/80136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}