Minnesota Set to Become "Abortion Access Island" in the Midwest, but for Whom? - Jessica Lussenhop

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : In Minnesota, residents can use state medical assistance funds to pay for an abortion under certain circumstances; out-of-state residents cannot.
53% : Kansas allows abortion up to 22 weeks, protects the right to abortion in its Constitution and reports one of the highest rates of out-of-state patients in the country, at nearly 50% and second only to Washington, D.C.
47% :Of course, the data from Minnesota is backward-looking, from years when abortion was still legal, though restricted or sometimes difficult to access, in surrounding states.
43% : States track demographic data on abortion differently; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two dozen publicly report the race and ethnicity of patients.
41% : Caitlin Knowles Myers, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont who studies the economics of abortion, added, "Obviously resources like ability to take time off, ability to get and pay for child care, etc., etc. -- that obviously prevents poor women from making a trip."
38% : Ruling in Doe v. Minnesota, the judge threw out measures that included a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before abortions, two-parent consent for minors and a requirement that physicians discuss medical risks and alternatives to abortion with patients.
36% : The state's neighbors have either banned abortion, are poised to do so or have severely restricted the procedure.

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