Where Abortion Stands In PA One Year After Supreme Court Ruling
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HARRISBURG, PA — Abortion access has been threatened in Pennsylvania but the state remains a haven for an increasing number of out of state residents one year after the landmark Supreme Court ruling putting an end to federal reproductive health protections.
The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization sent shockwaves around the world when it was handed down in late June 2022, striking down Roe v. Wade and effectively leaving the future of many women’s healthcare decisions in the hands of the states.
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Pennsylvania was among a small group of states on the fringe of losing all abortion access last year, with a fully Republican state House and Senate in power and a far right gubernatorial candidate in Doug Mastriano gaining momentum into the fall.
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What transpired since, however, has only further entrenched Pennsylvania as an abortion destination: Mastriano was defeated, Democrats flipped the House for the first time in years, and neighboring states fully banned the procedure.
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Pennsylvania’s populous neighbors, both very near and far, have found themselves turning to the Keystone State as an abortion refuge. That all resulted in about a 20 percent increase in abortion patients in Pennsylvania since Dobbs, according to a Fox report. Two of the 26 states that have fully banned abortion are immediately on the state’s borders: West Virginia and Ohio.
“The fight for abortion access didn’t begin when the Supreme Court took away our rights,” Planned Parenthood Advocates of Pennsylvania shared on the anniversary of the Dobbs ruling. “Pennsylvanians support abortion rights, and this fight won’t be over until EVERYONE has the freedom to control their own bodies and lives.”
The state has 18 abortion clinics, but they’re concentrated in just a small portion of the state. About 85 percent of the state’s counties don’t have an abortion provider, according to the reproductive health research and policy NGO Guttmacher Institute.
The Institute describes still Pennsylvania as “restrictive” in its overall abortion stance, citing the state’s policy to ban abortions at 24 weeks or later, and requiring patients to wait 24 hours after counseling to obtain an abortion. State Medicaid coverage of abortion care is also limited.
Legislation was just passed by the Republican House to expand “crisis pregnancy centers” that would help women give birth. Many abortion advocates have come out staunchly against funding such centers, as they say they use misleading practices to convince women not to have abortions.
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