Women in the Quad Cities will no longer have access to local abortion services after Friday, when Planned Parenthood will close its clinic because of cuts in state financing.

The clinic in Bettendorf is the only abortion provider in the Quad Cities, which is Iowa’s third-largest metropolitan area. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland announced in May that it would close the Bettendorf clinic and three others, in Burlington, Keokuk and Sioux City. The closures were blamed on the Legislature’s decision to effectively cut off $2 million in Medicaid money Planned Parenthood of the Heartland used to receive to provide birth control services to moderate-income Iowans. The shift barred any abortion-providing agency from participating in the family planning program.

Planned Parenthood this summer stopped offering many services at the Bettendorf location, but it continued to dispense abortion pills there via a telemedicine system, which links patients in outlying clinics with doctors in Iowa City or Des Moines.

The Bettendorf clinic will completely close this week, the agency announced Wednesday. “It is as devastating today as it was last spring to announce that we are no longer able to serve our patients in Bettendorf,” Suzanna de Baca, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s president, said in a press release.

The closest clinic still offering abortions will be 60 miles west in Iowa City.

Abortion opponents hailed the Legislature’s decision to cut off much of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s public money. In an opinion piece published in the Register in June, Iowans for Life Executive Director Maggie DeWitte contended there are plenty of other clinics that could provide family planning services without offering abortions. “This is a victory for our state, and Iowans for Life is committed to continue working to see all abortion clinics closed in Iowa,” she wrote.

The Legislature’s decision meant Iowa had to forego about $3 million in federal Medicaid funding. Instead, the state is using about $3.3 million to recreate its own family planning network so that it can prohibit the funding of clinics that provide abortions.

Critics of the move said none of the money in question was used to provide abortion services. But supporters of the change said any support for Planned Parenthood effectively helps it offer abortions.

Under the law, the new state family planning program also bars participation by hospitals and clinics affiliated with UnityPoint and the University of Iowa, which occasionally provide abortions for medical reasons.

If abortion opponents had their way, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland wouldn't be able to use the telemedicine system that allowed it to extend services to Bettendorf until this week. Abortion opponents, led by then-Gov. Terry Branstad, tried in 2013 to force Planned Parenthood to shut off the first-in-the-nation system for dispensing abortion pills. But the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2015 that the system was legal.