New Maryland abortion provider to open near West Virginia in post-Roe "abortion desert"

A new abortion provider will be opening this year in Democratic-controlled Maryland — just across from conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. The Women's Health Center of Maryland in Cumberland, about 5 miles from West Virginia, will open its doors in June — a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections — to provide abortions to patients across central Appalachia, a region clinic operators say is an "abortion desert." "Hours in any direction, there are no other abortion providers here —...