Cities Prepare For Influx Of Traveling Patients In A Post-Roe America

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : As Washington braces for a projected four-fold increase in patients from Idaho seeking abortions, Berry says Planned Parenthood is pouring resources and staff into call centers and patient navigators to help them coordinate travel and find services.
44% : As these legal boundaries for abortion are redrawn in the U.S., abortion providers are rethinking their approach to care.
43% : The Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, estimates 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in the coming months.
40% : She says abortion will never go away, but there's only so much they can do.
40% : "And so we would like to see abortion treated the same in Idaho code as any other type of murder."
36% : Two trigger laws there would criminalize abortion 30 days after the Supreme Court's imminent ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
35% : "So we believe that abortion is homicide and that the abortionist who commits the crime is essentially acting as an assassin for hire -- a hit man," Conzatti said.
31% : She says in the past month, she's seen multiple patients travel from Texas and Oklahoma where abortion is now banned.

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