Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, New Mexico is now the only state bordering Texas where abortion is still legal.
It takes more than 12 hours to drive across Texas, a large state where abortion is now unavailable. "I came from Dallas," Smith said."My homegirl had been on like this program to help me. So they paid for my flights. They paid for my hotel and they paid for the rental car."
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, New Mexico is now the only state bordering Texas where abortion is still legal. "So we got as little as 100 patients a month, to 269 patients a month. And I think the past two months have been over 200. So I suspect it's going to trend that way," Theard said.
Abortion rights activists say Texas already had strict laws on the books, and adding a total ban will overwhelmingly affect Black and brown women – and undocumented migrants.
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