Tens of thousands of women forced to travel out of state for abortion care after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022 [View all]
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 24 June 2025 19:59 EDT
Tens of thousands abortion patients have been forced to leave their home states to seek abortion care three years after the end of constitutionally protected abortion access in America.
One out of every seven abortion patients, or roughly 155,000 people, left their home state for abortion care last year, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group.
That total is slightly fewer than the 170,000 people who traveled for abortion care in 2023, but it remains a remarkable spike in abortion-related travel compared to the years before the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v Wade and allowed states to criminalize abortion care and implement outright bans.
Out-of-state travel for abortion care has virtually doubled since that ruling. Since the Dobbs decision, 13 states have outlawed abortions in virtually all circumstances, creating a patchwork of abortion access across the country, and balkanized legal constraints for patients and providers, who are shielded in some states and criminalized in others. The total number of abortions each year has also steadily increased in the wake of that decision.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/abortion-legal-travel-dobbs-anniversary-b2776346.html
Link to Guttmacher Institute REPORT - Monthly Abortion Provision Study
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