One in five patients crossed state lines to obtain an abortion in 2023, compared with one in 10 patients in 2020
Abortion providers witnessed a record surge in out-of-state patients since Roe v Wade was overturned last year, according to newly released data from the Guttmacher Institute. The report, offering the first analysis of abortion-related travel since the supreme court decision, revealed that one in five patients crossed state lines to obtain an abortion in 2023, compared with one in 10 patients in 2020.
As abortion bans have rippled across the country, providers in the states such as Illinois – where the procedure is protected by the state constitution – have been inundated with appointment requests. Illinois’s clinics doubled the proportion of abortions provided to out-of-state patients, according to the Guttmacher report – in 2020, 21% of the patients who received abortion care in Illinois came from out of state; in 2023, the figure jumps to 42%.
Abortion bans don’t stop abortions. People with the means will travel out of state. People without the means to travel will obtain abortions by whatever means necessary. Women will die.
There were reasons why Roe was decided the way it was. Some people have forgotten history or never learned it. Women they know and women they love will die. They will remember, they will learn. It will be too late.
This is the hamster wheel of samsara.
I’m curious to know how many of those people eventually move to the place they visited for their healthcare. Visiting a place once is often all it takes to make it feel easier to move there.
Not surprising. There is no other options for them.
Crocks with socks? I can’t be the only one bothered ny that right?( From the thumbnail)
Makes sense in a hospital, non slip, comfortable, insulated
