Related: Study Finds That After the Overturning of Roe, People Started Getting Sterilized
Hey, turns out the Roe overturn was good for the abortion business in Kansas.
See? This is how a free market is supposed to work.
Kansas providers performed a historic number of abortions in 2023 – and most of them were performed on out-of-state residents – in a sign of just how much the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade has rewritten the map of abortion access and led women to flee their home states for the procedure.
More than 19,000 abortions took place in Kansas in 2023, a 58% increase from 2022, according to a recent report from the Kansas department of health and environment. Of those, roughly 4,300 abortions were performed on Kansas residents, while about 15,000 were done on out-of-state residents.
Most of those out-of-state residents were from Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri – three states that neighbor Kansas and have banned virtually all abortions.
The increase in Kansas abortions mirrors the national upswing in the procedure. In 2023, the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortions and restrictions, recorded more than 1m US abortions. That’s the highest number documented in a decade.
These states are going to start marketing “abortion tourism” in the non-abortion states. Women will be doing “all expenses paid” abortion tours.