New Mexico braces for influx after Supreme Court allows Texas abortion restrictions

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New Mexico braces for influx after the U.S. Supreme Court allows Texas abortion restrictions.

With the help of abortion funds and practical support groups in next-door New Mexico, however, many of these women will be able to still receive the care they need. Clinics in New Mexico, experts explained, are the closest possible destinations many women needing care in large parts of Texas can reach quickly. In addition, New Mexico doesn’t have any legal restrictions on abortion on the books.

Leaders of abortion funds throughout Texas, including the Lilith Fund, Fund Texas Choice and the Frontera Fund, said they had for years been referring women who were already past the state's previous gestational limits to New Mexico funds and clinics. Those leaders said they will continue to do so, if they continue to have the financial resources.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which operates two clinics in New Mexico that perform procedural and medication abortions, has already seen 229 patients from Texas so far this year, a substantial uptick from 2020, CEO Vicki Cowart said. The group has recently seen large numbers of Texans seek care at its facilities; prior to March 2020, when Texas Gov.

 

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Good move by the Supreme Court. You can’t just go around killing innocent babies.

Don’t t worry ! Rich Republican Texan politicians will always be able to get abortions for their girls friends and mistresses!

I hope all the border states care about women’s health. AbortionIsHealthcare TexasTaliban

Beautiful country, spend tourist money there

What happened to my body, my choice SMH, Texas should be ashamed. 🤦

Thank you New Mexico.

This is an idiotic and inflammatory title. There is NO need to Brace anything and influx, get a grip. All people go where they wish for appropriate medical care

Never visit these 10 Countries in 2021 😱🧐

Taiwan will be invaded in 4 months,China will not wait until weapons reach Taiwan and Biden leaving office!The second important theorem is that China failed because of fear,not because of beaten. So Taiwan only needs no surrender,all the people soldiers,and killing turncoats.

Will the military evacuate Americans from Texas as it falls to the Y'alliban

I’m pro choice. Leave women’s bodies alone. Don’t take their freedom.

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