While I wouldn't go as far as to say that any women plans a pregnancy just for travel, I have seen first hand how many in the village(both white and non-white on Medicaid) use medical excuses as a reason for a state paid trip to Fairbanks and Anchorage.  And it would be easy if the state would audit Medicaid paid travel, and you can almost correlate it to events happening in either of the two cities.  And yes, many don't ever make their appointments.

Eastman's comments were crude and inappropriate.  But there is an issue here that does need to be addressed.  Trying to deny it as some kind of racism or misogyny won't fix it.