Report: Out-Of-State Travel For Abortion Declined This Year As Pill Use increased

In 2024, 10,020 Tennessee residents travelled out of state to obtain an abortion.


ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND – APRIL 13: In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. A Massachusetts appeals court temporarily blocked a Texas-based federal judge’s ruling that suspended the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen to induce an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy in combination with the drug Misoprostol. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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