Many of Kristina Tocce’s patients drive or fly hundreds of miles to see her in Denver. Colorado is one of the strongholds for abortion services that are quickly disappearing elsewhere. But since Friday, when the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, concerns over how anti-abortion states might try to stop her are always in the back of her mind.
“Now that we don’t have federal protection for abortion rights, who knows what surrounding states are going to do?” said Tocce, vice president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.
With Roe gone, and with it the constitutional right to abortion, doctors and clinics across the U.S. are worried about what, exactly, they can legally provide and whether anti-abortion legislators in one state can affect what is done in another.
