My patient, who I’ll call Tess, drove eight hours from Ohio, as she was unable to access abortion services in her own state.

Tess received a medication abortion here in Georgia, because she had access to child care and transportation and because she did not have to tell her husband about the procedure.

She commented on how her husband would not be supportive of this decision, but that she was doing it for her family, and her son.

Tess had access to resources that so many other patients don’t. They’re all doing it for the same reasons: their family.