Last Friday’s Supreme Court ruling on abortion has set off a desperate travel scramble to the Golden State.
In the small, dusty town of Needles, the I-40 bridge links the haves and the have-nots.
Behind the scenes, California’s abortion providers have been gearing up – fundraising, establishing care networks and expanding access – since news first leaked in early May that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving abortion rights up to individual states. Many states have severely restricted the procedure or outlawed it outright.
Medical academics at UC San Francisco, UCLA and other hospitals are arranging to serve more high-risk patients with complex medical conditions who can no longer get care in their home state. They’re bracing to see women with late-term pregnancies, whose care was delayed due to lack of funds or transportation. They’re training more out-of-state providers, who can no longer get experience at home.
Providers there had feared the revival of a pre-Roe law that dates back to at least 1901 when the state was still a territory. It bans abortion, with the only exception being to save a woman’s life. There’s also a new ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy that is expected to take effect in late September. With confusion over the two laws, most abortion providers in the state have stopped procedures.
“We had a woman who drove all the way from El Paso, straight through” to the San Bernardino Health Center, about 750 miles away, said Nichole Ramirez ofRamirez helped secure a plane ticket for one young woman who had never flown before. She eased the legal anxieties of another, who feared that Texas law would reach into California.
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