(CNN)I operate the only abortion clinic in Wichita. For many of our patients, we are their last hope. A woman showed up on our doorstep recently in wrinkled clothes that she had been wearing for days. She told us she had traveled across three states, spending $100 on gas alone, before finally reaching her destination. After she was unable to get the care she needed at the clinic closest to her, she left her small town in the Texas panhandle and went to Oklahoma, where she was told that her pregnancy was too far along to receive an abortion there. So she came to us.
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Julie Burkhart, abortion provider in Kansas, says some must travels days to find abortion clinic
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She says some states have stepped up restrictions, not based on medical need, but ideology
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Burkhart: Roe v Wade decision 42 years ago; women today must take action to keep health care rights
And in @placeholder, medically unnecessary legislation forced the closure of abortion clinics across the state.