The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a challenge to a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade.
today to a Mississippi law that bans nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The case is a direct challenge toThe percentage of people living over 200 miles away from a provider would increase from 1% to 29%, according to the database.from the Guttmacher Institute, an organization that researches reproductive rights, which found that people seeking abortions in southern and Midwest states would have to travel hundreds of miles to access the procedure.
In Florida, for example, the average one-way driving distance under a total abortion ban would be 575 miles — a 6,803% increase. Currently, people travel around 8 miles one-way to reach the closest provider. Louisiana residents seeking abortion care would have to travel the longest distances, 666 miles one-way. Currently, they travel approximately 37 miles one-way."Large areas of the U.S.
As soon as the law was enacted, clinics in other states — such as Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico — started receiving calls from Texans looking to end their pregnancies, even as some struggled to support patients from their own states, perWomen have been driving for hours to access reproductive health care.
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