A year into Missouri’s abortion ban, residents who want to end their pregnancies are sometimes told that instead of traveling to neighboring Kansas, where the state constitution protects abortion, they need to look to other states such as Colorado that are hours away because clinics are inundated with patients.
Missouri patients are now waiting in line behind women from Texas and Arkansas. They’ve been forced to figure out how to take off work, pack up their bags and travel hours to receive care — or, in some instances, keep an unwanted pregnancy.
“There are people who are going to either attempt to terminate a pregnancy without medical support, which should never ever have to happen, or they’re going to continue with pregnancies that they had not wanted,” said Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains.
“It’s going to be years of us uncovering what happens when you take away access to a fundamental right and critical type of care.”
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