– The Conversation – Home – Crossing state lines to get an abortion is a new legal minefield, with courts to decide if there’s a right to travel

An examination room at a Jacksonville abortion clinic in April 2024, shortly before Florida’s six-week abortion ban went into effect. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an abortion. Fourteen states ban abortions in almost all circumstances, and another eight in almost all cases after 6 to 18 weeks of pregnancy. Nonetheless, the number of abortions provided in the U.S. has actually grown since the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, rising 11% since 2020, to over 1 million abortions a year. This increase can partially be explained…

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