Some women also travel to another jurisdiction or country where they may obtain an abortion.

District officials have told Congress they would use that money to help poor women obtain abortions regardless of the reason.

The next president will have many opportunities to affect the more than one million women who obtain abortions each year.

Of the 2,300 responses he received, 70 percent said they opposed making it more difficult for a woman to obtain an abortion.

There are many measures of the difficulties women face in obtaining abortions.

Now, instead of an illegal procedure that might cost $500, any woman could easily obtain an abortion, often for less than $100.

Presumably, many people who take the test would use the information as a basis for deciding whether to obtain an abortion.

These cases addressed only the situation in which a woman must obtain an abortion because of some threat to her health from continued pregnancy.

The court said both were unconstitutional obstacles to obtaining an abortion.

That 1973 ruling established a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.