Wading without Roe — where do you go?

California becomes a last-resort haven for patients seeking to end pregnancies

By Audrey Tomlin • Bay City News
Oct 11, 2025

In September 2023, Marcela Bermudez bought a one-way ticket, stepped on a plane in Houston, Texas, and flew more than 1,000 miles to Los Angeles, California. She was 25 years old. She was 14 weeks pregnant. She did not want to be. Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing the federal constitutional right to an abortion, had been overturned 15 months earlier. In Texas, abortion was banned.

Bermudez was one of nearly 7,000 patients who traveled to California from out of state for an abortion that year. She, alongside other patients who crossed state lines for abortion care, shared memories of long, costly travels, overwhelming stigma, and the need for much effort and a little bit of luck — the right friend or a supportive partner — to receive their abortions.

Continued: https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/10/11/wading-without-roe-california-a-last-resort-haven-for-patients-trying-to-end-pregnancies/

Out-of-state abortion care is becoming the norm in the Southeast, but resources for travel are drying up

While the demand for travel assistance for abortion care has grown, some abortion funds report that donations have slowed down

by Eliana Perozo
August 16th, 2023

On May 20, 18-year-old Alyssa Roberts drove to a CVS store in Mobile, Alabama, and bought a pregnancy test. Roberts, who asked to use a pseudonym for her last name to protect her identity, kept her best friend on the phone while she anxiously took the test and waited. A few minutes later, she discovered she was pregnant.

Roberts gave herself a week to think through her options, but it only took her two days to realize she wasn’t ready for a baby. That’s when she started looking for an abortion clinic.

Continued: https://prismreports.org/2023/08/16/out-of-state-abortion-resources-southeast/

No Matter Where You Live, New Yorkers Can Help You Get an Abortion (And We’ll Pay for It, Too.)

By Claire Lampen, a staff writer for the Cut.
Dec 5, 2022

Nancy Davis found herself living what she called “a mother’s worst nightmare.” Around ten weeks into her pregnancy, an ultrasound detected that the fetus had acrania, meaning it was developing without a skull. Davis lives in Louisiana, and acrania doesn’t appear on the list of “medically futile” conditions that allow for an exception to the near-total abortion ban the state implemented after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

“Louisiana doctors, they were scared of prosecution; they were scared of being fined,” Davis says. “So I went somewhere the laws were clear and they were confident they could give me the care that I needed.”

Continued: https://www.thecut.com/2022/12/new-yorkers-can-help-you-get-an-abortion.html