Virginia could become the only southern state to allow abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
BBC News, Washington
The latest restrictions are expected to force even more out-of-state patients to seek abortions in Virginia.Whole Woman's Health, which operates two brick-and-mortar clinics and a telemedicine resource that provides abortion pills by mail, was seeing more women cross state lines to access its services even before the Supreme Court overturned the right to terminate pregnancies last June.
Several have come from Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia - all of which border Virginia and which have outlawed nearly all abortions. Over the past year, it is also leaning more heavily on its virtual tele-health programmes and has created other resources to ease the burden of out-of-state patients, including helping them with funding.
Jamie Lockhart, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates for Virginia, said abortion bans in neighbouring states will have "a ripple effect" on her state."These providers of abortion care also provide a whole range of sexual and reproductive healthcare as well as primary care," she added. "So when there's an increased need for abortion access, it's also going to have implications for other healthcare that they provide.
After the fall of Roe, abortions in North Carolina soared by nearly 40% - the single biggest percentage increase in any state - as women from the region saw access to the procedure in their own states curbed.
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