Doubts Over Abortion Travel Bans Lead States to Try Other Means

Conservative lawmakers are threatening to enact a nationwide ban on abortion should they win decisively in November, and they’re doing their best in the interim to make it harder for people to end pregnancies even in states where it’s still lawful to do so.

One target is travel between states that have made abortion mostly illegal and those that still protect a right to abortion—travel that has picked up significantly since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Ending that travel is essential to the goal of eliminating abortion nationwide, ...