This survey offers a first-of-its-kind look at the practical impact of Florida’s law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
By Caitlin Gilbert, Caroline Kitchener and Janice Kai Chen, The Washington PostA woman who underwent an abortion with oral pills shows the items she received in the mail at her home in Houston, Texas in February.
The study is a first-of-its-kind look at the practical impact of the new law in a state where 80,000 abortions had taken place each year.
“Driving distance and appointment availability remain salient components of abortion access, but less so than they were three years ago,” said Myers, who has spent years quantifying the changing landscape of abortion access.“Telehealth is really a game changer for abortion access,” she said. “But it might be a fragile one.”
Eileen Diamond and an assistant administrator look through case files at the end of the day on April 30, the last day before the new law took effect. Amy Hagstrom Miller, who leads Whole Woman’s Health, a national network of abortion clinics, opened a new clinic in New Mexico after she was forced to shutter several clinics in Texas when was overturned. The deluge of patients she expected from antiabortion states at that clinic, along with other clinics elsewhere, has yet to materialize, she said.
A Washington Post analysis found that, in total, about 7 million women of reproductive age in Florida and surrounding states will now have to travel longer to receive abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The average affected woman saw a drive time increase of more than seven hours, analysis using data from OpenStreetMap shows.
North Carolina, where abortion is legal until 12 weeks of pregnancy, is the closest state that offers abortions beyond Florida’s six-week limit. But another law, which requires patients to wait at least 72 hours between an initial in-person consultation with a doctor and the procedure, can make traveling there logistically difficult.
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