Some 171,300 patients traveled out-of-state for abortions last year, new data estimates from the Guttmacher Institute show. State abortion bans that took effect in the post-Roe era have severely curbed access to reproductive care across the U.S.

More than one million clinician-provided abortions took place in states without a total ban in 2023 — the first full year after Roe v. Wade was overturned. That’s the highest number in more than a decade.

Out-of-state travel for abortions, including for the procedure or to obtain abortion pills, more than doubled from 2020 to 2023.

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    But you know that Canadas biggest pharmacy is right behind the US Border and has the size (and turnover) of a supermarket?

    Which is fine if you have a car and the time off work to drive from, say, Beaumont, Texas to Canada (apparently a one-day drive).

    You’re essentially saying the solution is a two-tiered system where women who can afford to travel can still get abortions.

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      5 months ago

      I was just saying that there would be solutions. I never talked about affordability. And if those who cannot afford to survive in the current political climate keep making the same mistake in the voting booths, nobody can help you.

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        You do know that less than 100% of Texans voted Republican, right? In fact, it’s not all that far from 50/50.

        https://www.270towin.com/states/Texas

        So maybe don’t blame women who get pregnant and don’t want to be in a state that has banned abortion when they may not have even voted for the Republicans who did it.

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          If all those women in Texas voted with their own personal wellbeing in mind, you would not have a Republican problem. And therefor no abortion crisis.

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            And so because of that, blame the women who didn’t vote for Republicans as well? That black fast food worker in Dallas who has never voted Republican in her life? Her fault?

            That’s quite the victim-blaming mentality you have there.