The Cobalt Abortion Fund, based in Colorado, spent almost $2.5 million in 2025 helping in-state and out-of-state residents get abortions.
The amount marked an 84% increase in expenditures over the previous year, reflecting a broader post-Dobbs shift: as more states enact protections for unborn children, abortion advocacy networks are expanding interstate travel and financial assistance efforts to maintain access.
The Cobalt Abortion Fund supports abortion seekers in two ways: financial assistance to pay for the abortion care itself and support for travel expenses such as lodging and transportation. Last year, 45% of their clients that received funding for abortions were from Colorado and 34.6% were from Texas. The end result—4,000 abortions.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, approximately 155,000 women traveled across state lines to obtain an abortion in 2024, accounting for about 15% of all abortions nationwide. When combined with the growing use of abortion pills, these interstate travel patterns help explain why overall abortion numbers have remained high and, in some reports, increased despite the Dobbs decision and the closure of some Planned Parenthood facilities across the country.
These shifts reflect what Care Net President and CEO Roland Warren warned about immediately after the landmark Dobbs ruling. Back in 2022, Roland tempered the celebration with renewed urgency to serve women and families facing complex pregnancy decisions.
“For all who value the sanctity of human life, today marks a monumental day in our efforts to protect the unborn,” he said. “But changed laws don’t equal changed hearts, and the Supreme Court can’t outlaw unplanned, unexpected, and unexpectedly complicated pregnancies. Accordingly, regardless of how the laws of our land play out over the next several years, women and men will continue to face tough pregnancy decisions. In an environment in which abortion is more difficult to access, Care Net’s work has become more critical than ever.”
In a recent column, Maria V. Gallagher, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, wrote about the invaluable role of pregnancy centers in today’s society and the need to support them. In reading testimonies of women who had undergone abortion pill reversal, she was struck by the loneliness and pressure to abort they experienced.
“It is a credit to these women that they found the inner strength to reverse the abortion process,” she wrote. “But it also brought home to me the fact that every pregnant woman has a right to be surrounded by a circle of love.”
Ideally, support would come from the father of the child or family, she wrote, but when that’s not possible it’s the responsibility of the Pro Abundant Life community to offer compassion and care.
“Day in and day out, that is what pregnancy resource centers and clinics do. They offer a crucial safety net to women who are struggling at a most vulnerable time of their lives,” Gallagher wrote. She continued, “In supporting pregnancy centers, we are giving women the lifeline they need to bring their babies into the world. Who else can pregnant women turn to? Certainly not the abortion industry, which offers nothing in the way of material support for a woman and her unborn child.”
As organizations like the Cobalt Abortion Fund expand their reach and abortion pill use continues to rise, this should serve as a clarion call for the pro-life community to be even more diligent in supporting the work of pregnancy centers. Moreover, in Care Net’s Pro Abundant Life vision, local churches must also step into a leadership role in providing compassion, hope, and help to women and men at risk for choosing abortion. By God’s grace, let us have a renewed urgency to pray, to give financially, and advocate so women and men facing pregnancy decisions can indeed be “surrounded by a circle of love.”