The waiting periods’ most egregious toll, pro-choice advocates argue, is the amount of hassle and cost that comes with them, especially in the 11 states that require counseling before the wait begins. Abortions are already too expensive for some women to easily afford, they say.

“The forced delay would create needless and burdensome logistical and financial barriers,” said Jessica González-Rojas, the executive director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, in a statement opposing the Florida bill. “Furthermore, these policies would have a disproportionately negative impact on Latinas, immigrant women, young women, and women of color across the state, who already struggle to get the care they need.”

Take Missouri, which passed its 72-hour waiting period last fall. Under that state’s law, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a woman seeking an abortion must receive in-person counseling, then wait three days, then return to the clinic for the procedure. During counseling, the women are handed materials declaring that life begins at conception and, if they are 22 weeks along or further, that a fetus can feel pain.

As of February, there was only one abortion facility in Missouri, the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis. Colleen McNicholas, the doctor who provides abortions there, told Think Progress, “From the perspective of the women we care for, the biggest issue is economic. In Missouri, insurance, both private and public, are prohibited from covering the cost. That leaves women scraping by to find the cash to get the care.”

But that was last January, when the wait was still 24 hours. What is it like to get an abortion in Missouri now?

There are very few modern studies on just how much waiting periods ratchet up the price of an abortion. In a 2014 study, researchers asked women who sought abortions at 30 different clinics in the U.S., “Did anything slow you down and prevent you from getting to the [clinic] earlier in your pregnancy?” Costs and the travel involved were the top reason the women gave. (A similarly important reason was not realizing they were pregnant, but only among women in their first trimester.) “It was probably travel costs, procedure costs, not knowing who I would have to come with me on the four-day adventure,” one of the participants said.

‘Why Didn’t You Come to the Clinic Earlier?’

History also provides one strangely fitting example: In 1981, researchers for one study interviewed Tennessee women after the state enacted a counseling and waiting-period law two years prior (the waiting period was struck down in the state in 2000, then re-imposed recently). The study found that 62 percent of women said the second visit increased the cost of the abortion because of lost wages, transportation, and childcare expenses. The requirement made the abortion more expensive by 48 percent for poor women and by 14 percent for richer ones (possibly because it was more costly for employed women and those in rural areas to take time off work and travel to the clinic). Three-quarters of the women said they couldn’t name a single benefit of the waiting period, but more than half of them said the delay caused problems for them. The median additional costs of the abortion added up to $24—but this was back when the procedure cost just $50 to $175. Today, the price is between $470 and $1,320.