Bristol Women’s Health Center in Virginia is preparing for an influx of women from Florida seeking abortions as a stricter ban is set to take effect in Florida next month.
The drive to Bristol, Va., from Jacksonville, Fla., takes more than eight hours. It's over 10 from Orlando and closer to 14 hours from Miami. Despite that distance, Bristol Women’s Health Center is preparing for an influx of women from Florida seeking abortions when a stricter ban kicks in there next month.
For many people who otherwise would have obtained abortions in Florida, the clinic in southwest Virginia will become the closest practical option — as it already is for a swath of the South after a Florida policy change that's expected to resonate far beyond the state. “The majority of the patients we do serve are coming from banned states,” said Karolina Ogorek, the clinic’s administrative director. “I think that Florida will just become another one of the states that we serve.” On April 1, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's current ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy — a move that will allow another, stricter ban to take effect on May
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