If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the closest abortion clinic for those in the South and Midwest could be hundreds of miles away, report says

If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, people seeking abortions in the South and Midwest would have to travel hundreds of miles to get an abortion, according to a new report released Thursday.

The Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center based in New York and Washington that supports abortion rights, examined the impact of so-called trigger laws that would ban or severely restrict the procedure in multiple states if the high court issued such a ruling. It measured how far clients in those states would have to travel to get to the closest abortion clinic. It also looked at how states where the procedure would remain legal would be affected by the influx of patients.