“Abortion migration” is when pregnant people travel long distances and cross internal and national borders to access abortion care. While the news out of Texas is extraordinarily alarming, both Texas women and pregnant people across the globe have long been traveling to places like Albuquerque to legally terminate pregnancies. Various forms of state and state-sanctioned power combine to coerce our movement in ways that threaten our dignity and equal standing.
Author: Amy Reed-Sandoval
Amy Reed-Sandoval is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, specializing in immigration and reproductive bioethics. She is the author of Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020). A former writer for The News in Mexico City, her op-eds have appeared in venues such as Salon, Psyche, The Guardian and BBC News Online.