Even if the Supreme Court guts Roe or overturns it altogether, abortion rights will be upheld in Washington through existing state-level protections. But they may not be in Idaho, where the state Legislature is advancing a copycat bill modeled on Texas’ SB 8. Idaho also has a so-called “trigger” ban, which would criminalize abortion immediately if Roe is overturned. If the trigger ban goes into effect, Dillon said he expects to see even more patients traveling from Idaho into Washington.
Projections from the Guttmacher Institute suggest a maximum of 230,000 women of reproductive age in Idaho would have to travel to Washington state to find their nearest abortion provider. That’s
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