Figure 1.

Distribution of (A) predicted travel time to the nearest abortion facility following the 2022 United States Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization and (B) environmental justice indicators in the southeastern United States.

Note: In panel A, we use data on the predicted average travel time to the nearest abortion facility post-Dobbs obtained from the Abortion Access Dashboard (https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/6e360741bfd84db79d5db774a1147815) produced by Professor Caitlin Myers at Middlebury College. We use the predicted average hours as of September 2023, which accounts for all abortion bans that have been implemented up until that date.

In panel B, we use the environmental justice indices for PM2.5 for the year 2021. Data were obtained from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s EJScreen, which calculates indices that combine socioeconomic and demographic characteristics with environmental exposures. Each index combines a demographic index (the percent of people of color and the percent of low-income people) with an environmental indicator that has been converted into a percentile for the given census block group. More details can be found at https://ejscreen.epa.gov/.