Abortion access organizations say they are confronting an imminent crisis with Florida’s forthcoming six-week ban on abortion. The state, whose neighboring states also have imposed abortion restrictions, was home to more than 84,000 abortions last year, a little over 8% of the estimated total abortions across the U.S. in 2023.
Most of those abortions were for Florida residents, but thousands also were performed on patients who came from nearby states that already restricted abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Several reproductive health organizations said there simply isn’t the capacity elsewhere to see so many patients.
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