USA Texans Lead in Crossing State Lines for Abortion Access in 2024, Report Reveals

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Texans Lead in Crossing State Lines for Abortion Access in 2024, Report Reveals

 

A new report has revealed that more people traveled from Texas than any other state in the U.S. to obtain abortions across state lines in 2024, highlighting the far-reaching consequences of restrictive abortion laws following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The data, published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, found that over 150,000 people traveled out of state for abortion care last year—nearly 20% of them from Texas alone.

 

 

The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, stated that those traveling across state lines represented around 15% of all abortion patients in 2024. The majority of these individuals came from the South, where abortion is most heavily restricted. Texas, which enforces a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, stood out significantly. According to the report, Texans traveled to 14 other states as well as Washington, D.C., in pursuit of abortion services.

 

“I got fired in April of 2023. In May of 2023, they asked me to run for president against Trump and said they would back me,” Carlson said.

 

The report was released to coincide with the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and leading to a patchwork of state-level laws. The new data underscores just how much that ruling reshaped the abortion landscape. While Texas was the leading state of origin for abortion travelers, the study also confirmed that residents of every state with near-total bans sought abortion care outside their borders.

 

The reasons behind where people chose to travel were not specified in the data, but various logistical and legal considerations likely factored in, said Isaac Maddow-Zimet, the Guttmacher data scientist who led the study. “People are weighing a lot of these factors—the cost, the interruption to their life that travel would cause—in trying to make a decision about how to get the abortion,” he explained.

 

Interestingly, the number of people traveling across state lines for abortion care in 2024 decreased compared to 2023. This drop is attributed largely to the increasing use of telehealth, which has enabled many to obtain abortion pills remotely. “Telehealth provision has really filled that gap,” Maddow-Zimet said.

 

Guttmacher’s data, collected monthly from abortion providers in states without total bans, does not include self-managed abortions, in which individuals terminate pregnancies without clinical supervision.

 

Since Roe was overturned, many conservative states have implemented stringent abortion laws, including so-called “trigger laws” that took effect shortly after the Supreme Court ruling. Florida, for instance, implemented a six-week abortion ban in May 2024, significantly altering the region’s access to care.

 

The ban not only impacted Florida residents, but also people from other Southern states who had previously traveled there for services. In 2024, Floridians sought abortions in Washington, D.C., and nine other states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, and New York.

 

Virginia became a particularly critical destination for out-of-state abortion patients. Although geographically farther for some Southern residents, the state lacks a mandatory 72-hour waiting period, making it a more accessible option. According to Guttmacher’s figures, 1,620 Floridians traveled to Virginia for abortions in 2024, up sharply from just 130 the year before.

 

This Guttmacher report coincided with another study released Monday by the Society of Family Planning, which found that abortion numbers rose overall in 2024, surpassing totals from both 2022 and 2023. By the end of the year, 25% of all abortions were provided via telehealth, with half of those supported by “shield laws” that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where abortion is banned.

 

Those shield laws are now being challenged in court, and the future of medication abortion and telehealth access could hinge on upcoming legal rulings. “These data constantly just show me how unpredictable the landscape of abortion care is,” Maddow-Zimet said.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from WP  2025-06-26

 

 

[Purdey]

Seems that the women are voting with their feet (or EV). However, bypassing laws by going to another state will eventually convince people to vote against anti-abortion politicians.

[Srikcir]

13 hours ago, Social Media said:

Texans traveled to 14 other states as well as Washington, D.C., in pursuit of abortion services

No travel to Mexico?

There is Las Bloodys, one of 17 Mexican feminist organizations that are part of a cross-border network assisting women in the United States who need an abortion.

https://www.wired.com/story/american-women-abortions-mexico/

 

[annotator]

Texas is the second most populous state in the country right below California. So why is it even newsworthy that it would have the most women leaving the state to murder their babies?