{"id":294550,"date":"2023-07-11T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294550"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:24:35","slug":"pro-abortion-state-expected-non-resident-abortions-to-increase-they-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-state-expected-non-resident-abortions-to-increase-they-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion state expected non-resident abortions to increase. They didn’t."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortionists in Vermont were expecting out-of-state business to grow following the fall of Roe v. Wade<\/em> in 2022. Combined with the enactment of an amendment<\/a> that same year that made Vermont the first state to claim abortion as a constitutional right, Vermont clinics thought women would be flocking to them from far-off states for an abortion, according to media reports<\/a>. But the number of women traveling to Vermont for an abortion over the last year actually declined<\/a> from the year prior.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been just over a few weeks and we\u2019ve already seen the harm caused by the U.S. Supreme Court Decision,\u201d said<\/a> Eileen Sullivan of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in July of 2022, shortly after Roe<\/em> was overturned. She told WCAX that in the weeks following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>, the affiliate received more than a dozen calls from states including Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas to schedule abortion services. \u201cPatients shouldn\u2019t have to travel hundreds of miles to access care, but for millions of Americans, that\u2019s their new reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, according to preliminary data from the state Department of Health, Vermont never saw this increase. A few patients did travel from as far as Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas, but most traveled from New Hampshire. Despite Vermont legislators actively working to expand access to abortion in the state in which there were already no limits in place, fewer<\/em> abortions appear to have been committed in the last year.<\/p>\n