Currently, nearly half of states across the US completely ban or heavily restrict access to abortion, which means that this fall, millions of students will return to college campuses in states without access to abortion care.
According to estimates from the Center for Reproductive Rights, about six million students are expected to attend college in abortion-restricted states. For context, abortion is illegal in 14 states according to the Guttmacher Institute, some of which are home to massive student populations that attend state schools from both in-state and out-of-state, such as Texas, Indiana and Missouri. Other states like Florida and Georgia, which are also home to huge student populations each school year, restrict abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — which essentially acts as an abortion ban.
“Fifty-five percent of the undergraduate students enrolled in college last year were women—and the highest rate of unintended…