The choice: a rural mother and abortion care on the Washington-Idaho border

Jasmine and her baby outside her home in Clarkston, Washington, on 5 October 2023. Photograph: Margaret Albaugh/The Guardian

As she walks in the door on a recent afternoon to relieve her parents of caring for her five-month-old daughter, Jasmine feels a familiar pang of guilt.

Jasmine*, 28, is a single mother raising four kids in a small town in far eastern Washington, near the border of Idaho. Her partner of more than a decade – and father of her children – is incarcerated for an assault charge that she brought against him.