171,000 Traveled for Abortions Last Year. See Where They Went.

[Loulit01]

More than 14,000 Texas patients crossed the border into New Mexico for an abortion last year. An additional 16,000 left Southern states bound for Illinois. And nearly 12,000 more traveled north from South Carolina and Georgia to North Carolina.

These were among the more than 171,000 patients who traveled for an abortion in 2023, new estimates show, demonstrating both the upheaval in access since the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the limits of state bans to stop the procedure. The data also highlights the unsettled nature of an issue that will test politicians up and down the ballot in November.

Out-of-state travel for abortions — either to have a procedure or obtain abortion pills — more than doubled in 2023 compared with 2019, and made up nearly a fifth of recorded abortions.
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171,000 Traveled for Abortions Last Year. See Where They Went.

Out-of-state trips for abortions more than doubled in 2023, demonstrating the upheaval in access since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

www.nytimes.com

I wonder how many of those intrepid travellers will vote republican?

 

[Gordy327]

It's a shame women have to go to such lengths to obtain a simple medical procedure. It also goes to show abortion restrictions do not work very well and just might antagonize enough women to vote against those who impose or support restrictions.

 

[Lovebug]

Just think of the desperate women and girls who can't travel.

 

[CaughtInThe]

It's also the porn belt btw.

And tons of Republican women will need abortions. They've trashed themselves.

 

[Gordy327]

Just think of the desperate women and girls who can't travel.

Unfortunately, they're likely to become even more desperate.

 

[Loulit01]

The abortion ban stops only poor women having abortions. Those with means travel.

They're not anti-abortion laws: They're anti-poor people laws.

 

[Lursa]

The abortion ban stops only poor women having abortions. Those with means travel.

They're not anti-abortion laws: They're anti-poor people laws.

And creating more hardship and pain, exacerbating social ills, and creating situations that keep poor women/families from getting ahead. It assumes that these women arent in committed relationships/married too. Which is also BS.

Conservatives dont want to raise the minimum wage, for example. So then married couples, who's birth control failed...are now stuck having kids they cant afford. The expectation that couples dont or shoudnt have sex is ludicrous...but pro-life would punish them anyway. And society...themselves...who do you think subsidizes them and their families?

 

[Middleground]

Just think of the desperate women and girls who can't travel.

This was one of the main reasons abortion became legal. Many desperate women died from back alley abortions.

 

[Gordy327]

This was one of the main reasons abortion became legal. Many desperate women died from back alley abortions.

History is starting to repeat itself.

 

[Lovebug]

History is starting to repeat itself.

Call the midwives, British series, is not about nuns but closely follows significant issues in their time period. I think season 8 should a mandatory watch.

AI generated result:
The abortion storyline in Call the Midwife begins in episode seven of series eight and continues throughout the season, culminating in the series finale. The episodes that include abortion storylines are:

• Episode 7: Val must decide whether to report her grandmother, who is revealed to be a backstreet abortionist, or risk her own career by keeping quiet.
• Episode 4: Jeannie tells Dr. Turner that she had an abortion three days earlier, and the episode shows the consequences of illegal abortion. Jeannie becomes sickly, shakes, and dies in an ambulance.
• Series finale: The abortionist is convicted.
  
  

 

[Lursa]

This was one of the main reasons abortion became legal. Many desperate women died from back alley abortions.

Yes. It is THE reason. It is the basis for the challenge case in RvW.

"Coffee and Weddington brought a lawsuit on McCorvey’s behalf (who went by the alias “Jane Roe” throughout the case to protect her identity) claiming that the state’s law violated Roe’s constitutional rights. The suit claimed that, while her life was not in danger, Roe had a right to obtain an abortion in a safe, medical environment within her home state. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas agreed, and ruled that the Texas law violated Roe’s right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment, and was therefore unconstitutional."​

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The U.S. Constitution | Constitution Center

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State's interest in protecting women's safety​

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From Roe v Wade:​

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"The State has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that abortion, like any other medical procedure, is performed under circumstances that insure maximum safety for the patient. This interest obviously extends at least to the performing physician and his staff, to the facilities involved, to the availability of after-care, and to adequate provision for any complication or emergency that might arise. The prevalence of high mortality rates at illegal "abortion mills" strengthens, rather than weakens, the State's interest in regulating the conditions under which abortions are performed."​

The decision had little to nothing to do with the unborn or its interests. It was not the patient. Laws like in TX create an individual person of the unborn where none exists at the federal level. They place the unborn's well-being ahead of the woman's.

 

[choiceone]

Yes. It is THE reason. It is the basis for the challenge case in RvW.

"Coffee and Weddington brought a lawsuit on McCorvey’s behalf (who went by the alias “Jane Roe” throughout the case to protect her identity) claiming that the state’s law violated Roe’s constitutional rights. The suit claimed that, while her life was not in danger, Roe had a right to obtain an abortion in a safe, medical environment within her home state. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas agreed, and ruled that the Texas law violated Roe’s right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment, and was therefore unconstitutional."​

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The U.S. Constitution | Constitution Center

Learn about the text, history, and meaning of the U.S. Constitution from leading scholars of diverse legal and philosophical perspectives.

constitutioncenter.org

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State's interest in protecting women's safety​

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From Roe v Wade:​

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"The State has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that abortion, like any other medical procedure, is performed under circumstances that insure maximum safety for the patient. This interest obviously extends at least to the performing physician and his staff, to the facilities involved, to the availability of after-care, and to adequate provision for any complication or emergency that might arise. The prevalence of high mortality rates at illegal "abortion mills" strengthens, rather than weakens, the State's interest in regulating the conditions under which abortions are performed."​

The decision had little to nothing to do with the unborn or its interests. It was not the patient. Laws like in TX create an individual person of the unborn where none exists at the federal level. They place the unborn's well-being ahead of the woman's.

Actually, it had nothing to do with the interests of the unborn at all. It was only the state's interest that was considered and weighed against the Constitutional rights of the woman as a person.