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It’s a nearly 10-hour car drive from Tampa to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Wilmington, North Carolina. By plane, it’ll take about two hours to fly to the Washington, D.C., area — then another 20 minutes to drive to an abortion provider in Virginia. It’s a 1,850-mile round trip to get from St. Petersburg to a southern Illinois clinic that offers the surgical procedure. But Florida women’s clinics and abortion providers say cross-country trips like these to become routine after the state’s Supreme Court ruled to ensure a restrictive abortion ban will take effect at the beginning of Ma…

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