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Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care
About half of all states now ban or severely restrict abortion, and some advocates worry that those aiding folks who travel for one could face legal repercussions. "You could see an aggressive prosecutor trying to say, under the current laws, that, 'We are going to charge this pilot with being an accessory to murder or an accessory to abortion,'" David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University,
told NPR in 2023. "We haven't seen prosecutors try that yet. But there's good reason to believe that's on the horizon."
It’s an occasional topic of conversation in the Elevated Access chatrooms, but for the most part, E. says, these pilots have a very “come and take it” attitude.
“There’s some people who are worried about it, and there’s a lot more people who are like, ‘Nah, let ‘em try,’” she says. She thinks it’s indicative of how important this work is to people, how much they’re willing to fight. “I think sometimes certain entities in power underestimate how much this matters to people.”
