Tens of thousands of women forced to travel out of state for abortion care after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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Link to Guttmacher Institute REPORT - Monthly Abortion Provision Study

[Marthe48]

1. I bet men would raise hell if they had to travel out of state

for ED care.

[Timeflyer]

2. Freedom and liberty for some, based on luck, location and gender, and contempt for women overall.

This is tRump's GOP America being great again.

[Lonestarblue]

3. MAGA men screamed that it was a major imposition for them to get a vaccine shot that violated their freedom.

Yet they think it’s fine to force women to carry an unwanted pregnancy for 9 months, bear the large expense of delivery if they’re uninsured, give up any economic independence to stay home for 18 years to raise a child, and if they’re poor give up a second income that feeds their other children to raise another child they can’t afford. Republican misogyny at work. All they want is Stepford wives programmed to cater to their every fantasy.

[travelingthrulife]

5. And child labor to replace the people they are throwing out of the country.

[FakeNoose]

4. It's the 1950's all over again

Only wealthy, or better-off families can afford such an undertaking. The poor are stuck with terrible options, or none at all. This is what happens when men make the decisions where women are concerned.

[Hekate]

7. It's a lot worse than that -- we've gone back over a century. There were no bounty-hunter laws...

…when I was a teenager in the 1960s. Now there are.

You’ve heard of “zombie laws” right? Those are laws never taken off the books, merely superseded by Roe — and now that Roe is gone, they have emerged from their stinking graves. One was 150 years old.

[FakeNoose]

8. Yes all true, but the OP is about abortion laws being rescinded

I'm old enough to remember the 1950's, however I wasn't old enough to get pregnant then.
Now the 60's - that's another story.

[Hekate]

9. In the '50s and early '60s I wasn't a teen but I was old enough to listen to my mom talk with her friends

I distinctly understood that “abortion” was an illegal thing no one would talk about in a group (I read TIME magazine early) much less in front of a wide-eyed kid — but they did talk about their health issues, and one of those was miscarriages, and another was the possibility of tumors and whether they were benign or not.

As a consequence, I knew what a D&C was and what it was for. It was not an abortion. I knew from my mother’s experiences (I am the oldest of my sibs) that a miscarriage might be here and gone, or it might be fatal if untreated. Doctors and hospitals DID commonly use the D&C procedure to clean out the remains of a miscarriage.

And now, in 2025, red state legislatures have made that impossible. Because in their diseased minds a D&C is an abortion. That’s the kind of thing I am talking about.

[sakabatou]

6. Can someone say "undue burden"?

Fricking auto-correct.