In response to last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, more than 100 activists participated this morning in a “March for Reproductive Rights” from Atlantic Boulevard and Third Street to Jarboe Park in Neptune Beach.
According to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the Guttmacher Institute, almost 80,000 women got abortions in Florida in 2021. More than 4,800 women traveled from another state to Florida last year to get the procedure.Jessica Wannemacher, a Jacksonville Planned Parenthood manager, said the number of patients seeking care has doubled since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“This past week alone we saw over 40 patients that had traveled from multiple states in the country, including Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas,” said Wannemacher. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, five states immediately banned abortion following the Supreme Court’s ruling.Eleanor Ascheman, an anti-abortion advocate who is the president of Students for Life, is among those who say there are other options and resources available, instead of abortion.“We are seeing a shift in what each state wants, which is kind of how it should be,” Ascheman said. “We are electing representatives who are representing our views and what we want.
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