SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – UCSF has released a new study on the impacts of travel time on women who need access to abortion care.
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In June, when the Dobb versus Jackson ruling came down, it allowed states to restrict or eliminate women's access to reproductive healthcare. Since the ruling, abortion access has been severely limited or completely outlawed in over 13 states.
Dr. Yulin Hswen, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF and senior author of the study, used geospatial analysis to discover the travel times women now face in the U.S. to get an abortion.
"What we're really seeing is that women of reproductive age that have to travel over an hour to an abortion facility, that number has actually doubled," Hswen told KCBS Radio's "As Prescribed." And we've also seen disparities in abortion access based on travel time increased the greatest geographically in the south as well as across racial and ethnic minorities."
In Texas, the travel time to an abortion facility used to be 15 minutes. It is now around 8 hours.
Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, a professor in OB/GYN and reproductive care at UCSF, told KCBS Radio women now have two choices if they can't access abortion care: travel out of the state while facing legal risk or carry the unwanted pregnancy to term.
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