New Texas abortion law pushes women to out-of-state clinics

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Clinics and aid organizations are expanding a network that helps women in Texas and other places with restrictive abortion laws travel to other states to end their pregnancies.

this week, clinics in neighboring states were fielding growing numbers of calls from women desperate for options.

Fund Texas Choice is among the groups seeking to expand a network that helps women in Texas and other places with restrictive abortion laws end their pregnancies in other states. It already has seen more women reaching out. The organization typically handles 10 new cases per week but received 10 calls from new clients just Wednesday, when the law took effect.

The number of Texans getting abortions in Kansas jumped from 25 in 2019 to 289 last year. The Trust Women clinic in Wichita accounted for 203 of those procedures in a three-month period. Those patients traveled an average of 650 miles , Trust Women spokesman Zack Gingrich-Gaylord said.One woman discovered she was pregnant just as Abbott’s emergency order banning abortions was lifted. She and her partner had lost their jobs in San Antonio during the pandemic.

“It’s so comforting because it’s like someone saying, ‘We got you. Let’s take care of this together,’” Miranda said. Trust Women Wichita clinic director Ashley Brink said the phones have been busier than normal this week with potential patients from Texas and beyond. Women also have been calling from Louisiana and Alabama who would typically get abortion care in Texas but are having to travel even farther.

“Oklahoma has just barely enough clinics for the amount of people here,” Tong said. “If anyone is thinking, ‘Oh, they can just go out of state, it’ll be so easy,’ a lot of clinics in the Midwest and South, we don’t do abortion care five days a week.”abortion restrictions similar to those in Texas in a matter of monthsIn recent months, 15% of patients supported by Cobalt, an abortion access advocacy group in Colorado, were from out of state, president Karen Middleton said.

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What woman enjoys needing an abortion? Every single person in this photo knows or has met a woman who needed an abortion. These are the same selfish people who probably are anti vaxxers. Pro life?

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