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In the 13 states where abortion is banned outright, fear and confusion permeate every interaction around the procedure. The bans have fundamentally changed the relationships between doctors and their patients, and the medical choices women are making.
Care that was once available at a routine appointment can become a complicated and expensive endeavor requiring travel many states away. Doctors, clinics and volunteers are struggling to meet the immense need created by that domino effect. More than two years after Dobbs, this patchwork is ripping at the seams.
The stories we found were ones of women getting access — just barely. Of doctors and volunteers white-knuckling it to provide the support, funding, care required. But there are many stories of women who don’t manage to navigate the chaos, who get lost in the fault lines. As recently reported by ProPublica, shortly after Roe was overturned, a woman in Georgia died as a result of delayed access to an abortion. In her story there are echoes of the ones shared with us — unsupervised, she had complications with her medication abortion, like Chelsea. She had to travel out of state but was thwarted by circumstances beyond her control, like Evie. She needed a doctor, like Dr. Kelley, who recognized her situation as life-threatening. She was not as lucky as the women you’ve met here. How many more of her are out there? How many more will there be if we continue down this path?
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Get out and vote, ladies. There is no balm in Gilead.
Care that was once available at a routine appointment can become a complicated and expensive endeavor requiring travel many states away. Doctors, clinics and volunteers are struggling to meet the immense need created by that domino effect. More than two years after Dobbs, this patchwork is ripping at the seams.
The stories we found were ones of women getting access — just barely. Of doctors and volunteers white-knuckling it to provide the support, funding, care required. But there are many stories of women who don’t manage to navigate the chaos, who get lost in the fault lines. As recently reported by ProPublica, shortly after Roe was overturned, a woman in Georgia died as a result of delayed access to an abortion. In her story there are echoes of the ones shared with us — unsupervised, she had complications with her medication abortion, like Chelsea. She had to travel out of state but was thwarted by circumstances beyond her control, like Evie. She needed a doctor, like Dr. Kelley, who recognized her situation as life-threatening. She was not as lucky as the women you’ve met here. How many more of her are out there? How many more will there be if we continue down this path?
Opinion | This Is What It Takes to Get an Abortion in America
In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.
Get out and vote, ladies. There is no balm in Gilead.
Trump made a horrible unforgivable mistake helping with this Christian Nationalist witch hunt. Now women and children are suffering, losing doctors in the field because let's be honest, who wants all this trouble? Better to be a foot doc.
We humans are so obsessed with our imaginary lines on the ground. Maybe what we need is to cycle everyone through a sub-orbital flight, let everyone see the planet from afar and experience "Overview Effect".
