One state steps in as Texas bans abortions: 'No one will be turned away'

  • 📰 YahooNews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 46 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 22%
  • Publisher: 59%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

The day was jampacked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southern Illinois when a woman who had just driven over 12 hours from Louisiana for an abortion procedure erupted into tears during her health intake.

Kawanna Shannon, the surgical services director at the Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, dropped her tasks and led the woman into a private room to talk. The woman said she was panicking because she had used her rent money to pay for child care for her two kids, rent a car, buy gas and drive to the clinic in Fairview Heights.

Rodriguez said the past month has shown that access is not just a Texas problem because when it is lost in one state, that creates a ripple effect as far out as Fairview Heights, where appointment times are being quickly filled. Sponsors of the act emphasized in legislative sessions the importance of its protections should the landmark Roe v. Wade decision be overturned. The Supreme Court said in May thaton most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in its upcoming fall term.

After completing a late procedure for a patient last week, she had to help the woman, who drove over 300 miles from Tennessee, figure out how to get her car fixed. With everything being closed after hours, McNicholas then needed to help the patient get a hotel room for the night while waiting for a place to open to work on her car. It was an additional financial burden this patient wasn’t prepared for, she said.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

'Health intake'

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 380. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Ripples from Texas abortion law spread to Illinois safe havenAn Illinois clinic, emblematic of a state that has deemed itself a safe haven for abortion care, is feeling the reverberations of the Texas abortion law in the form of dozens of women forced to travel hundreds of miles just to secure an appointment. Remember, in Texas a woman can be raped at gunpoint and could be forced to bear the child and furthermore, the rapist could sue the woman for visitation afterwards. Outrageous! America is not, by any means…The home of the free. It is the home of assorted groups trying to tell people what to do.
Source: NBCNews - 🏆 10. / 86 Read more »

Texas Doctor Says He Defied State Law by Performing AbortionA Texas antiabortion group says it's looking into a doctor's claim that he defied the state law that recently took effect by performing an abortion on a woman past the sixth week of her pregnancy Someone needed to make a case so it could be challenged. Predictable. What you going to do arrest the Doctor to gets vote. Pretty sure womens in your family are exempt and have all medical facilities. Its the poor women going to suffer. $10k bounty coming
Source: WSJ - 🏆 98. / 63 Read more »

US Ramps Up Plan To Expel Thousands Of Haitian Migrants Gathered In TexasU.S. President Joe Biden's administration is nearing a final plan to expel many of the thousands of Haitian migrants who have crossed into a Texas border city.
Source: HuffPostWomen - 🏆 27. / 68 Read more »

Haitians on Texas border undeterred by US plan to expel themDEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Haitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and a feeling of hopelessness in their home country said they will not be deterred by U.S. plans to speedily send them back, as thousands of people remained encamped on the Texas border Saturday after crossing from Mexico. Latin American refugees... Let them in all day. Haitian refugees... Reject and send back. Cuban refugees... Vehemently swear off immigration. Tell me why the DNC is so particular with it's policy? They are escaping for a reason. We should find a way to welcome them. We have our own impoverished people to help here. Go home and fix your own country.
Source: AP - 🏆 728. / 51 Read more »

U.S. ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in TexasLATEST: U.S. to ramp up expulsion flights within the next 3 days for some of the thousands of Haitian migrants gathered under an overpass bridge in Del Rio, Texas, officials say. Why is this never done with White European countries? Why didn’t we send those millions of Hispanics back to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala? Let’s help those asylums find refugee in the USA. POTUS VP OccupyDemocrats TheDemocrats
Source: NBCNews - 🏆 10. / 86 Read more »