Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS During the past six months, Kathaleen Pittman has often noticed some of her staff at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, are on the verge of tears. Every day, more and more patients reach out hoping to schedule an abortion at one of the state’s three remaining clinics, and the one closest to the Texas border.
SB8, which effectively banned abortions in Texas when it took effect six months ago, has created an unsustainable demand for abortion services in nearby states that haven’t yet enacted such draconian legislation. Desperate patients with enough resources to travel have been fleeing to clinics in surrounding states, including New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana. Several of those states are pretty hostile to abortion care themselves.
Having an abortion is already prohibitively expensive for many people. The cost ranges on average from $500 to $3,000, depending on the stage of pregnancy. And that doesn’t account for the cost of taking time off work, finding child care, or booking a place to stay to accommodate mandatory waiting periods, which can be between 24 and 72 hours, depending on the state.
The Texas measure outlaws abortion once fetal “cardiac activity” is detected — which happens at around six weeks, well before most people know they’re pregnant — and doesn’t include exceptions for rape or incest. This arbitrary deadline violates Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that determined states can’t restrict abortion before viability, which experts say happens at around 23 or 24 weeks. But SB8 doesn’t have the state government prohibit abortion care.
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