Abortion rights backers fearful of upcoming Supreme Court ruling.
"The reality is that anything that has a detrimental impact on the general community has a more detrimental impact on communities of color," said Nia Weeks, a reproductive justice attorney based in New Orleans.
"When we see states try to ban abortion or close abortion clinics, then we're seeing much larger distances for travel and travel has an impact," said Nash. Amid the coronavirus crisis, the New Orleans Abortion Fund has already noticed more callers traveling out-of-state to get an abortion, as a result of longer wait times, because clinics are only able to see a number of patients at a time with social distancing in place.
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