>>>>Or inability due to safe, legal abortions not being available within a 1 day trip.
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>>>Safe being the important adjective here IMO - either you are able to hop into a jurisdiction where it's legal or legality will take a flying leap...
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>>Unfortunately, there's a lot of area that has lost its low-cost (or no-cost) women's health clinic simply because it performed abortions one day a week. So finding a clinic is harder. Here in Texas, that pretty much means that anyone living west of San Antonio has an 8 - 12 hour drive one way to even get to a clinic. Team that up with the fact that many states are now requiring a 'cooling off' period between the initial visit (with it's required ultrasound) and the actual procedure (usually 2-3 days, if I'm remembering what I've read correctly), that's another trip - assuming you have the time to take off from work - so we're talking 24 - 48 hours driving, not counting time in the actual office, etc.
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>If such a drive once is seen as too much, IMO they are just stupid. Forcing a rigmarole with the cooling off period - no way to have your local doc make the necessary bureocratic/diagnostic steps and schedule the treatment after the cooling off period - even on the danger that some procedures will be done again at the clinic for safety measures ?

Thomas-you have to understand that the goal of the people writing and passing these laws is to eliminate abortion. They can't pass laws to prohibit it, so they're doing everything they can to make it as hard as possible to get one. Sadly, the courts seem to be allowing this crap to stand.

Tamar