Wisconsin
CORE study projects drastic decrease in Wisconsin abortion access following Dobbs decision
The College of Wisconsin Collaborative for Reproductive Fairness exhibits that the Supreme Court docket’s overturning of Roe v. Wade will drastically improve the gap that Milwaukee and Dane County residents need to journey to obtain abortion companies.
This might result in a 20% discount in abortions in Wisconsin and a few 3% improve in births yearly, UW inhabitants well being sciences professor Jason Fletcher mentioned.
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The journey distance required to entry abortion care will improve by 70 miles for Milwaukee County residents and 120 miles for Dane County residents following the closures of two clinics providing abortion companies in Milwaukee, one in Madison and one in Sheboygan. Milwaukee and Dane Counties accounted for 56% of abortions in Wisconsin in 2020, based on the examine.
Although some Wisconsinites in search of abortion care traveled throughout state borders earlier than the Dobbs choice, the necessity to journey out of state creates limitations for folks residing in areas with excessive populations that beforehand supplied these companies, Fletcher mentioned.
These remoted from care are concentrated in Milwaukee and Dane Counties, Fletcher mentioned. Milwaukee residents could account for almost half of Wisconsinites unable to entry abortion companies post-Dobbs choice.
“We’re predicting that Milwaukee will in all probability have a discount of about 500 abortions per yr… So nearly half of them [total reductions] shall be residents in Milwaukee,” Fletcher mentioned.
CORE’s predictions have been based mostly off of analysis performed earlier than the Dobbs choice that confirmed a 100 mile improve in journey distance for abortion care, attributable to the closures of abortion clinics in Inexperienced Bay and Appleton, leading to a 30% discount in abortions and a 3% improve in births.
The candidates working within the Nov. 8 midterm election have been vocal about their plans for entry to abortion in Wisconsin, Fletcher mentioned.
“For individuals who view abortion entry and healthcare entry as prime of their causes to vote or why they’re voting… they need to hearken to fastidiously to these variations,” Fletcher mentioned.