The only abortion provider in Nashville has suspended services. The announcement coming from Planned Parenthood has other services busy with women seeking help with pregnancy.

One is doing all they can to ensure women are able to access abortion support, while the other is calling the suspension of abortion services in our state’s largest city “a Christmas miracle.”

At Tennessee Right to Life, which advocates against abortions, the phones have been busier than ever.

“We’ve had probably 19, 20 since Friday which is a usual number that actually calls us,” Diana Meinweiser told News 2.

She is the outreach coordinator for the organization that offers free pregnancy tests, counseling, and resources for women in a pregnancy crisis.

“We are just happy that the women are able to have a little bit more time. You know when your in crisis everything seems urgent so when they have time to sit down with somebody on the outside, somebody that’s not related, somebody that can just understand where they are coming from a lot of times that gives them time to really think and to consider other options such a parenting and adoption.”

She says many of the calls have been from women looking for abortion options.

“We defer to the pregnancy centers and we’ve already spoken to several of them and they are ready for the volume to increase.”

Meantime the Knoxville Abortion Doula Collective has also received a number of calls of women seeking abortions.

“And that’s both because they need assistance and also because they want to help,” a woman with the organization explained.

They are touted as the only one of its kind in the country that focuses on a digital solution to wrap around abortion care.

“And it can look like different things. So, it might look like talking someone through what to expect with the various procedures and options, providing resources for funding, sourcing help with travel, with childcare, even something like navigating the system.”

She says since the Planned Parenthood announcement, the group has started working with Memphis Full Spectrum Doula Collective to handle the increase in women now looking for abortion services outside of Middle Tennessee.

“It’s actually going to have a knock-on effect of creating increased demand on all of the providers in Tennessee as well as providers that are just outside the stat, so in Atlanta, for example, we anticipate people will be traveling to Atlanta as well.”

The group says they will continue to support Planned Parenthood.

“We fully anticipate that this will not be a forever thing that Tennessee sees, and we are very, very fortunate to be in a position to fill in the logistical support gaps during this time.”

Both services are privately funded.

A Facebook page has also been created by a local woman called “Tennessee Abortion Access Network.” It is geared toward helping women who are seeking abortion services with transportation and housing.

There has been a decrease over the past several years in abortions in Tennessee.

In 2016 9,732 were documented by the state health department compared to 12,573 in 2010.