Hi! After nearly 24 years @Guttmacher monitoring and analyzing state policies on reproductive health, I have a new job! I am now honored and humbled to join the federal government!.

The bottom line is this ban will be a disaster for Floridians and exacerbate huge gaps in access for Southerners. Donate to abortion funds. Pressure you representatives to enact #WHPA, the EACH Act, and other leg that could restore rights & access.⬇️.

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Our map also shows how state bans cluster to virtually eliminate abortion access in a whole region. Patients may need to travel across 2-3 states or vast distances to access abortion. If you add a flight to all the other costs, accessing care is impossible for many.

These barriers will push abortion out of reach for many, especially Black and Brown people & those with low-incomes. If unable to seek care, they may self-manage or carry an unwanted pregnancy to term-which has higher legal and health risks for these groups.

Florida's geography + bans in neighboring states means this journey would be long & costly. Costs add up quick when you add childcare, hotels, gas or flights and taking time off work.

Florida clinics are already at capacity with the 15-week ban in effect. South Carolina is the nearest state that offers abortions after 6 weeks and it only has a few providers. The next options are North Carolina or Virginia. That's FAR. Look at our map:

4 weeks is about the earliest pregnancy can be confirmed. With a six-week ban that leaves only two weeks to make the decision, get an appointment, make arrangements such as time away from work and pull together the funds. This is an insult to people's autonomy and dignity.

Let's talk about the impact of a 6-week abortion ban on Floridians:.- There are 4.6 million women of repro age + trans and nonbinary people in FL who may need abortions and would need to seek care in a very limited time frame.- 6-weeks is before many people know they're pregnant.

A six-week ban in #Florida is rapidly making its way through the legislature and the Governor is highly likely to sign. If it goes into effect, this ban would be disastrous for Floridians and devastate abortion access in the South. THREAD.

For more on abortion state policies being enforced in WY and other states, check out our interactive map:.

Even though the near-total ban is in effect the medication abortion ban is important! The one clinic in WY only provides med abortion. By covering all their bases to restrict med abortion, policymakers instill fear & confusion among patients + providers.

The near-total ban was enacted without gov signature and it is now in effect. It slipped under the radar. Enforcement of WY's trigger ban is currently blocked by a state court. These attacks & the legal chaos they cause are massively disruptive and cause harm to patients.

There is some confusion about the state of abortion in WY. I can help clarify:.- A near-total ban is now in effect in WY that-like the 12 other near-total bans across the country-includes procedural & med abortion.- A specific ban on abortion pills will go into effect this summer.

In states with total bans, we should claw back whatever access is possible. But we also have to be clear that the end goal is achieving reproductive freedom for all.

Proclaiming that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” did nothing to temper attacks on abortion rights, and just served to stigmatize abortion while the anti-abortion movement kept piling up restrictions and packed federal courts with anti-abortion activists.

That’s why trying to compromise, to chide both sides of the debate as equally unreasonable & extreme, to self-censor, or preemptively surrender the rights of some groups of people who need abortions (the young, those insured through Medicaid, etc) has never and will never work.

Let’s be clear: It’s futile to seek common ground with the anti-abortion movement. They have spent decades curtailing access step by step and state by state. It’s a maximalist movement—as evidenced by the anti-abortion SCOTUS justices overturning Roe the minute they could.

Those experiencing obstetric emergencies should have access to timely and dignified care. But securing access for some means we must secure access for anyone who needs an abortion. The only person who needs to know the reason for the abortion is the person seeking care.

But I want to push back against my analysis being misused as a tired strawman argument that falsely portrays the abortion rights movement as “all or nothing” and alleges I or others are putting purity over the interests of people needing abortions.

I want to start by saying how grateful I am to everyone helping people get the care they need. We should all be fighting for abortion care as rights and access continue to be attacked relentlessly in legislatures and courts.