In Missouri, abortion was banned almost immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Now, two years later, there's an effort to enshrine abortion access in the state's constitution by putting it on the ballot this

election cycle. I recently spoke to our communities correspondent Gabriel Hayes

in St. Louis. Gabby, great to see you. Help us understand here now in the two years since Dobbs was overturned,

what has that meant for people in Missouri and providers in the surrounding areas?

You know, Amma, a lot of what we know about how this has impacted Missouri and what this looks like from Missourians comes from the data and the information that we're able to gather from other states who are monitoring, you know, how many people are coming from states with more

extreme bans such as Missouri, how those folks are being impacted. We got some data from Hope Clinic this week. That clinic is located in Illinois right across the river from St. Louis and providers there tell us that

80% of the patients that they are seeing are coming from states with more extreme bans.

They say they are seeing patients coming from 28 different states across the country.

Five countries from around the world, We were able to speak to Julie

Burkhart over at Hope Clinic who was able to kind of paint the picture for what

this impact looks like for patients coming to their clinic for care.

Oftentimes they have to bring their children because they don't have child care or don't feel that they can disclose to people

why they would need to maybe leave their children for a day or two.

People go to great lengths to get rides from friends, to get a bus ticket, to get on a plane.

Now, Burke Hart explained for just a bit of context that just last month alone,

48% of the patients that they saw, she says, came from the state of Missouri.

Gabby, we did see in other states like Michigan and Ohio in reaction to the overturning of

Roe v. Wade, people launching successful ballot initiatives where voters then get to decide

on abortion access in their own states.

Tell us about the effort in Missouri.

Yeah, Amma, there is an effort currently

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