An abortion clinic is a medical facility that provides abortions. Such clinics may be public medical centers, private medical practices or nonprofit organizations such as Planned Parenthood. Statistics Canada There were 197 abortion providers in Canada in 2001. 34 of the 197 providers in Canada in 2001 were clinics and 167 were hospitals. The provinces with the most providers were Ontario (76 hospitals, 6 clinics), Quebec (30 hospitals, 19 clinics), and British Columbia (37 hospitals, 3 clinics) in 2001. The provinces and territories with the fewest providers were Prince Edward Island (none), Nunavut (one hospital), and Yukon (one hospital) in 2001. Netherlands There were 14 abortion clinics in the Netherlands in 2019. In 2013, 92% of all pregnancy terminations were performed in these clinics; the other interventions were carried out by gynaecologists in hospitals. In 2017, 30,523 women had their pregnancies terminated in the Netherlands; 11% of abortions were performed on women who travelled to the Netherlands for the treatment. United States There were 1,671 abortion providers in the United States in 2014. 267 of the 1,671 abortion providers in the U.S. in 2014 were clinics at which the majority of patient visits were for abortions. As of 2014, the states with the most providers were California (512) and New York (218). As of 2014, the states that only had one provider include Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. 90% of all counties in the United States do not have a provider in 2014. Every state (and the District of Columbia) had at least one provider in 2014. 31% of metropolitan counties and 3% of non-metropolitan counties had a provider in 2005. Clinic access Netherlands Abortion was criminalised in the Netherlands in 1911; nonetheless, a demand for terminating pregnancies remained, and an illegal abortion market grew. In 1962, about 25,000 abortions were performed in the entire country, all of them illegal and unsafe. 70 amateur abortionists were sentenced that year. Illegal abortions were mostly performed with very risky and dangerous methods, which led to serious infections and internal bleeding. About 20 to 30 women died of complications each year, while many others were disabled for life and resigned to wheelchairs. In the late 1960s, the taboo on abortion was gradually broken in public discourse. More and more experts came to the point of view that abortions would happen anyway, whether or not the act was criminalised, and it