Even before the Dobbs ruling, more Americans were traveling for abortions<\/p>\n
Nearly 1 in 10 abortions in 2020 were provided to patients who’d crossed state lines, according to a report released Thursday<\/a> by the Guttmacher Institute. That’s up from 6% in 2011. As the report notes, the increase occurred as a growing number of states were passing abortion restrictions.<\/p>\n Read more at NPR<\/a><\/p>\n ‘They Want to Hold Women Captive’: GOP Blocks Bill Protecting Right to Travel for Abortion<\/p>\n Democratic leaders and reproductive rights advocates swiftly blasted anti-choice Republican lawmakers on Thursday after U.S. Sen. James Lankford blocked a bill intended to protect the right of pregnant people across the country to travel for abortion services.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n “It’s disgraceful that anyone would object to making sure people can travel to other states for reproductive healthcare,” she added in a statement. “It’s morally repugnant. By objecting to this bill, Republicans are rejecting any appearance of fighting for people’s rights, and embracing all-out oppression of women like never before.”<\/p>\n Read more at Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even before the Dobbs ruling, more Americans were traveling for abortions Nearly 1 in 10 abortions in 2020 were provided to patients who’d crossed state lines, according to a report released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute. That’s up from 6% in 2011. As the report notes, the increase occurred as a growing number of states … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,33],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congress","tag-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}