Arielle Zionts, Kaiser Health News

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while attending a home-buying class. The new mom’s plans to buy a house stalled.

Any plan to open clinics on reservations would be fraught with legal, financial, and political hurdles, Indigenous abortion advocates said. And they wondered why many people now asking about the possibility didn’t seem interested in health care access there before abortion rights were threatened nationwide.