Traveling for abortion care was on the rise even before Roe was overturned, data shows

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Adrienne Mansanares, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, told ABC News that her organization purposely placed one of its centers along a Colorado highway knowing that people would travel to the state, given its abortion protections.
51% :The right to abortion is protected in Colorado.
41% : The state's leader, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, has vowed that "abortion will continue to be legal, safe, and accessible" as long as she is in charge.
39% : In April, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill that codified the right to abortion and declared that a "fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state."
30% :Hagstrom Miller said that 30% of patients at Whole Woman's Health's clinic in Minnesota are from Texas, with abortion now banned both there and in neighboring states.
19% : "We know thousands of people have already been forced out of Texas for abortion since last September, and they were able to go to Louisiana and Arkansas and Oklahoma ... and now those states have also banned abortion."

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