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Out-of-state patients cross into Colorado for legal abortions²

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Surrounded by states with abortion¹ bans, Colorado is seeing a record number of patients seeking abortion care.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Colorado is in a part of the country where there are now a lot of restrictive abortion laws. Kansas and New Mexico are exceptions. Even so, more and more people are traveling to Colorado from out of state for abortion care. The patient count started rising more than a year ago following the Texas law banning all abortions after six weeks. From Denver, Claire Cleveland reports.

CLAIRE CLEVELAND, BYLINE⁴: The small town of Cortez, Colo., borders three states. But the Planned Parenthood there gets calls from all over the country, says Sharon, the health center manager. We're only using her first name because she fears harassment⁵.

SHARON: I personally have scheduled patients from Louisiana, South Carolina, many from Texas, and not just northern Texas but, like, Corpus Christi, Texas. And it's, like, a thousand miles for them to travel.

CLEVELAND: Already this year, more than 2,400 out-of-state patients have crossed into Colorado for an abortion, according to provisional state data. That's over a thousand more than in the year before Texas passed its abortion ban.

SHARON: Appointments are being pushed out further and further because we're at capacity.

CLEVELAND: Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which serves Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, has seen an 18% increase in abortions. The organization has increased its capacity, but wait times for appointments have still increased by a week or more.

NANCY FANG⁶: There are going to be people who die because they're not able to access this care.

CLEVELAND: Dr. Nancy Fang is with the Comprehensive Women's Health Center in Denver. She says when appointments are delayed, pregnancies⁷ progress. And patients may then require a two-or-more-day second trimester abortion versus⁸ a one-day procedure in the first trimester. When Fang reviews her patients for the day, she pays special attention to where they're traveling from.

FANG: Other pieces of information that we used to not really focus too much on are how long are they staying in town, when their flight is or whether they're driving home.

CLEVELAND: The Colorado nonprofit Cobalt, which covers expenses for some who come here for abortion care, has more than doubled their spending since the Supreme⁹ Court abandoned Roe¹⁰ v. Wade¹¹. So far this year, they've supported nearly 400 people with things like plane tickets, lodging¹² and child care.

For NPR News, I'm Claire Cleveland in Denver.

1 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

2 abortions   

n.小产( abortion的名词复数 )；小产胎儿；（计划）等中止或夭折；败育

参考例句：

• The Venerable Master: By not having abortions, by not killing living beings. 上人：不堕胎、不杀生。 来自互联网
• Conclusion Chromosome abnormality is one of the causes of spontaneous abortions. 结论：染色体异常是导致反复自然流产的原因之一。 来自互联网

3 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

6 fang   

n.尖牙，犬牙

参考例句：

• Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来，象一只犬牙似的。
• The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。

7 pregnancies   

怀孕，妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象，战时人口正该补充。
• She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。

8 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

9 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

10 roe   

n.鱼卵；獐鹿

参考例句：

• We will serve smoked cod's roe at the dinner.宴会上我们将上一道熏鳕鱼子。
• I'll scramble some eggs with roe?我用鱼籽炒几个鸡蛋好吗？

11 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

12 lodging   

n.寄宿，住所；(大学生的)校外宿舍

参考例句：

• The bill is inclusive of the food and lodging. 账单包括吃、住费用。
• Where can you find lodging for the night? 你今晚在哪里借宿?