20-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com

New figures shed light on US abortion travel as Trump cuts tracking research

Guttmacher report finds 155,000 people crossed state lines for procedure – double number who did so before Roe’s fallFor the second year in a row, abortion providers performed more than 1m abortions in the United States in 2024. About 155,000 people crossed state lines for abortions – roughly double the number of patients who did so in 2020, before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen state-level abortion bans to take effect.These n
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