A Colorado-based abortion fund has elevated its spending on affected person help greater than tenfold because the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, in accordance with knowledge launched Wednesday.
The Cobalt Abortion Fund reported spending greater than $2.4 million in 2025 to assist ladies pay for abortion procedures and related assist, similar to journey and lodging. In 2021, the final full yr earlier than the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe, ending its institution of constitutional protections for abortion, the fund spent about $207,000 on these companies.
In all, the fund paid for practically 4,000 abortions and offered further assist to about 1,100 sufferers, its leaders mentioned Wednesday. The fund was began by Cobalt, an abortion rights advocacy group.
Practically 40% of the $1.74 million spent on abortion procedures final yr went to assist Texans, in accordance with Cobalt — second solely to Coloradans, who acquired about 48% of that cash. Texans additionally accounted for 86% of the $665,000 that went to assist these receiving the process.
Texas has a number of the strictest antiabortion legal guidelines within the nation, whereas Colorado has a number of the most protecting state legal guidelines.
The cash spent by the fund was all privately raised from people and foundations. Most donors, whether or not people or foundations, have Colorado ties, Cobalt President Karen Middleton mentioned. She attributed the rise to strict antiabortion legal guidelines in different states.
“Colorado is in a very distinctive place to say we may help,” Middleton mentioned. “However the catastrophe that’s this lack of care for therefore many individuals can’t be overstated.”
Colorado and Texas have taken reverse paths on abortion care and entry.
The yr earlier than the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe, the Texas legislature handed a ban on abortion after about six weeks of being pregnant, a interval earlier than many ladies know they’re pregnant. The state has additionally sought to clamp down on capsules that induce abortion, together with with so-called bounty hunter provisions that enable unrelated people to sue any particular person or entity that helps folks receive these capsules.
Colorado voters in 2024 authorized Modification 79, which enshrined abortion rights within the state structure. The legislature in 2025 additionally expanded the state’s protect legislation to guard suppliers and sufferers
Cobalt Abortion Fund Director Melisa Hidalgo-Cuellar mentioned the associated fee for care is rising solely due to what number of sufferers must journey and since restrictions on abortions make it more durable for folks to get well timed care.
“The necessity continues to be there,” Hidalgo-Cuellar mentioned. “Individuals nonetheless want this important well being care. Persons are simply compelled to journey exterior of their states to obtain this important well being care.”
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