Post-Dobbs abortion bans and restrictions led to dramatic increase in patients forced to cross state lines for care Today, the Guttmacher Institute released findings from the latest round of its Monthly Abortion Provision Study . In addition to monthly estimates of the number of facility-based abortions as well as medication abortions provided via telehealth and virtual providers in each state from January through September 2023, the release includes the first comprehensive data measuring the magnitude of interstate travel for abortion after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision in June 2022. The latest study findings show that nearly one in five abortion patients traveled out of state to obtain abortion care in the first six months of 2023, compared with one in 10 abortion patients during a similar period in 2020. “We knew that more people have been traveling across state lines for abortion since the end of Roe , but these findings are stunning nonetheless, and powerfully illustrate just how disruptive the overturning of Roe has been for tens of thousands of abortion patients,” says Isaac Maddow-Zimet, data scientist at Guttmacher and project lead. “Where people are traveling to get care is an important piece of the puzzle in untangling the post- Dobbs abortion landscape. We hope that this data can prove useful to providers, advocates and policymakers who have been working tirelessly to improve access to abortion in the face of unprecedented challenges.” The study’s findings on increases in out-of-state travel align with post- Dobbs policy shifts: People traveling for abortion care are mainly going to states that border those with total abortion bans or early gestational bans. States that had the highest increases in the number of out-of-state abortion patients in the first half of 2023 include […]
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