I remember the stuff you're talking about, too, but for a briief period of time, in the early 70s, you didn't even have to leave the U.S. to get a safe, legal abortion.
The women's center on my midwestern college campus ran a problem pregnancy counseling service at that time. They would talk to you about the various options (including abortion), help you decide what you wanted to do (if you needed help with that), and make referrals to apprpriate services as needed, including an abortion clinic in New York City. I know this, because I'm one of the women they referred, in 1972.
Fortunately, I was able to scrape together enough money to make the trip. I met women there from all over the U.S. The clinic ran an airport shuttle to help out of town patients get back and forth to their Manhattan location.
That's why I said New York was an abortion mecca back then. I'm not sure how many people realize it, because it was such a short period of time, but it was, and it can definitely happen again. If abortion is only legal in a few places, the women who can will flock there. The ones who can't will be SOL, but any woman who does not get an abortion is of course counted as a victory by the jerks who make these laws, regardless of her personal wishes. 
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