New research finds thousands more people are traveling to Kansas for abortions than before the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade. Nearly 4,000 more people traveled to Kansas for an abortion in the first six months of 2023 than in a similar period in 2020. That’s according to new data from the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. It found interstate abortion travel more than doubled since Roe was overturned in 2022.
The Wichita clinic, Trust Women, says those numbers align with what staff see on the ground. Their clinic receives an average of 3,000 to 4,000 phone calls a day, and have capacity for around 40 to 50 appointments per clinic day, adding that 81 out of every 100 patients the clinic sees are from outside Kansas.
