What's next? These states could be pivotal for post-Roe abortion access

• With Roe overturned, different states will become new battlegrounds for access to abortion.
• Among them are Florida, North Carolina and Kansas, expected for now to be critical points of access for people forced to travel longer distances to get an abortion.
• But will existing protections remain in place? It depends on upcoming ballot measures, hostile legislatures and midterm elections.

In a one-story brick building in Tuscaloosa in May, the West Alabama Women’s Center had been busy in what director Robin Marty feared was a final stretch of providing abortions before most become illegal in her state.

Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she expected abortion access would probably collapse across the Deep South. That leaves her clients, mostly poor, uninsured women of color, with one last option in the region – if it lasts.

“When we're gone, they're going to be – along with everybody else in the South – trying to travel to Florida,” Marty told USA TODAY.

Florida is among several states, including Kansas and North Carolina, whose decisions on whether to offer abortions will be pivotal to post-Roe access in the USA, experts and advocates said.