Latinas face long, expensive trips to access abortion clinics

Meanwhile in NY o California women live a few minutes’ drive from a clinic where abortions, in certain districts of the states of Texas and Florida They must travel more than 11 hours to reach the nearest clinic, a distance that especially affects those latinas, according to a study released this Friday.

The analysis by the ‘Center for American Progress’ (CAP) assured that “In congressional districts with a high proportion of Black women, driving times are almost 30 minutes longer on average, and in districts with a higher proportion of Latina women, they have to travel an extra hour.”

The nonpartisan organization’s study includes a map detailing how long it takes a woman to drive to an abortion clinic, depending on the congressional district where she lives.

It shows that the districts where women must travel the furthest to obtain abortions are concentrated in southeast Texas, in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.

Which ““Those who have to travel the longest distances to receive abortion services are more likely to live in congressional districts with lower incomes and more diverse populations.”noted CAP.

The organization added that, now that a new abortion law has come into force in Florida that prohibits the termination of pregnancy after six weeks, many women in that state “They will have to drive long distances to receive the care they need.”

In 49 of the 432 congressional districts in the United States, according to the report, women have to drive more than four hours to get to an abortion clinic, which means losing an entire day of work.

According to CAP, women in those districts earn thousands of dollars less per year and experience a larger gender pay gap, compared to women who have shorter trips to receive that reproductive health service.

“ANDThese abortion bans are generating unnecessarily high costs and forcing women, particularly low-income women and women of color, to take time off work,” said Sara Estep, director of the CAP Women’s Initiative and author of the study.

These women, Estep added, lose “a day’s salary, plus other non-medical costs related to traveling for abortion services, such as hotels, gas, food and child care, since most of them are already mothers.”

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