The average travel time to get an abortion more than tripled in the US after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a new study finds
More than a dozen states enacted complete or partial bans on abortion after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, and researchers considered abortion facilities in those states to be inactive – cutting the number of active facilities by a tenth. This drop in active facilities means a third of women of reproductive age in the US live more than an hour from the closest abortion facility – more than double the share before the bans were enacted.
But in states where abortion remained legal, abortions increased only 11%. “The increases in protected access states were not sufficient to compensate for the losses in the banned states,” said Upadhyay, who co-authored the JAMA study and the #WeCount analysis. “Together, these results point to a great unmet need for abortion care.” The women falling into this gap are those who are less able to travel, she said.
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