Small planes and secrecy: Pilots fly people to Kansas and other states for abortions

Elevated Access recruits hobby pilots to fly abortion patients out of states with bans. They offer a window into the increasingly scrappy tactics of abortion rights groups in a post-Roe America.
The pilot, clad in a blue windbreaker, pulls his single-engine, four-seater prop plane onto the tarmac.

The small municipal airport sits in a state where abortion is now banned in virtually all cases. But a short flight away in Kansas, it remains legal. That’s launched a wave of travel from across the South and Midwest in pursuit of pills and procedures no longer legal in many places.