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Sunday, February 13th, 2022

People In South Dakota Are Already Living In A Post-Roe World

Author:     Alanna Vagianos
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Publication Date:     02/12/2022
Link: People In South Dakota Are Already Living In A Post-Roe World
Stephan:   What many don't seem to understand is that if Roe is overturned, it will not be national. Each state will decide. If that happens, the schism between the Red and Blue states will grow even greater and more contentious. The Red states will try to control women coming to Blue states for abortions. a growing number of women will leave a Red state and move to a Blue one. Red economies will fall further behind Blue states, and the Blue states will be pressured to increase their underwriting of Red state failures through tax dollars, what each state puts in and takes out. Blue states are already subsidizing the failure of Red states. But this will be not only a political change but, also, a cultural one, with many negative implications and no positive ones. It is anti-wellbeing.
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty

More likely than not, you’ll find Sarah Traxler in an airport terminal, staring at her watch and wondering “When is this plane getting here?” Traxler, an abortion provider, flies from her home state of Minnesota to South Dakota twice a month to provide care in the last abortion clinic left in the state, Planned Parenthood’s Sioux Falls health center.

The center has been providing abortion care for South Dakotans for more than 20 years, but in all that time the clinic has never had an in-state abortion provider. Hospital systems in the state don’t allow physicians to work for them if they also provide care for Planned Parenthood. So Traxler, along with four other physicians, work on a rotating schedule ― each doctor takes one week a month, flying in twice that week to accommodate the state’s 72-hour waiting period for patients.

And each physician’s travel is scheduled down to the minute. South Dakota law requires patients seeking an abortion to undergo an initial in-person consultation and then wait […]

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