Challenges increase for immigrants accessing abortion after Roe reversal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Undocumented immigrants confront further daily obstacles hampering their ability to travel.
61% : Now, given increasing reliance on crossing state lines to obtain abortions, undocumented immigrants are left with few to no options.
57% : Last week, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion nationwide, including instructions to the Justice Department to ensure people can travel out-of-state for abortion care.
55% : Lee noted that states where law enforcement has "considerable discretion" to target immigrants are often the same states that are "hostile to abortion access," with Texas as a prime example.
48% : For example, only 16 states and the District of Columbia currently permit undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, excluding many of the states where abortion is banned and interstate travel is necessary.
45% : States like Colorado, where abortion is still legal, have become havens for people seeking abortions, particularly across the restrictive regions of the South and Midwest.
40% : These fears are made worse by rumors about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at abortion clinics, according to Brandi.
39% : "We would definitely be naïve to believe that immigration enforcement -- DHS, Border Patrol, ICE, the surveillance and the capacity of surveillance under all of these agencies -- would not affect access to reproductive health care," she added.
38% : With the legality of abortion in flux across the country, the risk of encountering law enforcement authorities may also frighten undocumented immigrants into avoiding seeking care, Lee said.
36% : With abortion now illegal in Texas, Kumar said he often directs patients to travel elsewhere to seek care -- only to learn they had never previously left the state, let alone been on a plane.

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