Overturning Roe could mean women seeking abortions have to travel hundreds of miles

CNN ^ | October 30, 2021 | Tierney Sneed and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN

[Morgana]

(CNN)A Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade could bring abortion bans to as many as half the states in the country already poised to prohibit the procedure. Such a move would also have knock-on effects on the primarily blue states that would maintain access to abortion. A Roe v. Wade reversal -- and the flood of abortion restrictions such a ruling would usher in -- stands to affect the distance women would have to travel to their nearest clinic, according to a new report released this week by the Guttmacher Institute. The institute, which favors abortion rights used data from the US Census Bureau to estimate the number of women of reproductive age living in each Census block and calculated the driving distance to the closest abortion clinic. Illinois, North Carolina and California are among the states that could see the biggest jump in out-of-state abortion patients, as their clinics would be closest for women whose own states are positioned to quickly ban the procedure, according to Guttmacher's analysis.

In states like Louisiana, Texas and Idaho, women would see the distance they'd have to travel to the nearest clinic increase by tenfold or more, if Roe v. Wade was reversed and abortion bans went into effect in the states most likely to implement them.

[throwthebumsout]

Six weeks is six weeks too many.

Small victories win the war.

6 months -> 6 weeks -> ...

[itsahoot]

And CNN that is what it is going back to because it violates the 10th Amendment. Regulation, Constitutionally belongs to the states.

D@mn straight if they want to kill babies it is their right and if they want to buy and sell people that is their right too. </s>

[Arcadian Empire]

It amounts to telling a parent who loves their daughter or son that they should accept a six-week window in which their daughter or son can be legally killed by someone else.

[Ann Archy]

KILL MORE BABIES!!! KILL MORE BABIES!!! DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL!

[Captain Peter Blood]

So

[throwthebumsout]

So, if you were the governor of Texas, you would have vetoed the abortion bill?

[NWFree]

Murder shouldn’t be convenient 🤪

[Albion Wilde]

I’ll bet there is a condom store within just a few miles.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

It could also mean that women become more reaponsible and keep their legs shut. :D

[dwg2]

I have that very issue. My mom saved it and now all these years later, I have it (she also saved the Kennedy assassination issues, which I also have).

[vpintheak]

Aww... women are gonna have to put in some real effort if they want to murder their child now!