here's abc's gloria riviera. >> reporter: for dr. colleen mcnicholas getting to work is a feat. she is an abortion provider in the midwest where access to abortion is increasingly restricted. she lives and works in missouri, a state with only two abortion clinics. each month she also commutes to oklahoma and kansas, seeing patients in a total of four clinics across three states. >> in america one in four women will have an abortion in their life, so to me abortion is just basic healthcare. >> we're going to remove the pregnancy, okay, and when i think about how politicized this has become i wonder, you know, how did this happen? >> reporter: does the fact that this is such a political debate, does it ever come into the kline snik. >> i take care of republican women and democratic women. i take care of women who have have children, who identify as christian or muslim or atheist. when they come into that space, their visit is not about politics. they don't care what their politician thinks. >> abortion is illegal! >> reporter: the abortion debate roiling this country for decades,