The study examined travel for abortion that occurred in 2023, the first full year after Roe v. Wade was dismantled.
Around 171,300 people traveled across state lines to obtain abortion services in 2023, according to new figures obtained and published by the Guttmacher Institute. The figures highlight a staggering increase in the number of people traveling to get an abortion in the U.S. in the wake of the Supreme Court’s upending of federally recognized rights to that procedure the year before. The year 2023 was...
