evidence: 1 in 3 women of reproductive age now live over an hour away from an abortion clinic, study finds One in three women of reproductive age in the U.S. now live over an hour away from the closest abortion clinic, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Tuesday. Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the average travel time to a clinic was less than 30 minutes. [...] In the three-month span between the Supreme Court's June 24 decision and Sept. 30, which the study's authors defined as the "post-Dobbs" period, over a dozen states had enacted total or near-total abortion bans. The "pre-Dobbs" data was taken from January to December 2021.