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Healthcare Headlines: Abortion Pilots

WVPE 88.1 Elkhart/South Bend

Published April 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM EDT

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Michael, a volunteer pilot with Elevated Access, recently flew a woman back home to the Deep South after an appointment at a Kansas clinic.

Rose Conlon/Kansas News Service

Increasingly restrictive abortion laws in many states have sent women traveling, in search of procedures and pills they can no longer legally get at home. Many head to Kansas and Illinois, by car and by bus — and now, thanks to a new volunteer pilot organization… by small plane.