The travel costs for abortions and delays in healthcare have risen according to the abortion prohibitions of the state, according to A new study Published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, more than 800 people in 14 states who implemented the ban on abortion after the decision of the US Supreme Court of June 2022 that the constitutional right to Abortus dismantled.
“Our research shows that the Floats The decision has increased the costs of abortion and delayed people, but it has not reduced their determination to get that care, ”said Diana Greene Foster, professor of UCSF and the main author of the study.
The States that fall under the study, forbidly abortion during the research time, from June 2022 to June 2024: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wisginia.
For people from those states, travel time, overnight stays and travel costs in connection with the search for an abortion increased after a ban was in place, Greene and her colleagues in the progressive new standards of UCSF in the reproductive health program.
The travel time for residents of Abortus-Ban-States rose from 2.8 hours to 11.3 hours, compared to access to abortion before a prohibition, and the travel costs rose from $ 179 to $ 372. More than half of the respondents said their abortion care required by 5 percent.
About 8 in 10 people who contacted an abortion clinic or call center reported that they were traveling to another state for an abortion, the UCSF researchers found. Only 3 percent reported to continue their pregnancy until birth.
Last year, 155,000 people traveled outside the state for abortion careAccording to a report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on promoting reproductive rights.
Currently have 12 states A total ban on abortionwhile Four prohibition of abortion after six weeks of pregnancyBefore many women know they are pregnant, according to the most recent Guttmacher data.
Republican legislators in some states have tried in recent years to clamp abortion trips. Idaho and Tennessee have adopted both laws that Make it a crime To help a pregnant small journeys to get a legal abortion without the consent of the parents, while several other states have considered similar legislation. Most of Idaho’s law has been Blocked by a judgeas Tennessee’s.
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