Two months ago, the state of Florida enacted its strict six-week abortion law. At the time, many people worried about how this would affect access to abortion care in the South. As the Society of Family Planning's #WeCount report found, post-Dobbs Florida became one of the top three states to see a rise in out-of-state abortions. In other words, it became an unlikely surge state as the vast majority of its neighboring states had more severe restrictions.
Now, new data from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) found that in the two months after going into effect, there has been a 575% increase in people who the hotline has supported to travel out of the state for care, compared to the same time in 2023.
