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Texas Passes Law Restricting Abortion After Six Weeks

2021-09-01T13:21:31.505Z


The new law can force women to travel hundreds of miles to exercise this legal right. Activists trust the Supreme Court to intervene: "This unconstitutional law is a large-scale attack against patients."


By Chloe Atkins

NBC News

Some Texas abortion clinics were already turning away patients even before the state's tough new law restricting the right to abortion took effect at midnight.

Since mid-August, all 11 Planned Parenthood health centers in Texas that provide abortion services have stopped scheduling visits after September 1 for pregnant women more than six weeks pregnant.

Planned Parenthood's decision is due to the law known as SB 8, which bans abortions in Texas when that deadline is met during pregnancy.

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The vast majority of people who abort in Texas are at least six weeks pregnant.

As a result, the law would ban nearly all abortions in the state, according to Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman's Health.

But unlike the anti-abortion laws of other states, the Texas ban prevents state officials from enforcing it and instead allows individuals to sue an abortion clinic or anyone who has helped someone get an abortion after the limit and demand up to $ 10,000 per defendant.

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"As of Wednesday, 7 million Texas women of reproductive age will lose access to abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, forcing them to travel hundreds of miles out of state if they wish to have an abortion, and if they can afford it," she explained. Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

"This unconstitutional law is a full-scale attack against patients, their healthcare providers and their support systems," he added.

A gurney from Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services of the St. Louis, Missouri region on May 28, 2019.REUTERS

The four Whole Woman's Health clinics in Texas will also comply with the law and prohibit abortion at seven weeks or less based on the results of the ultrasound and if heart activity is detected, according to the 19thnews newspaper.

Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman's Health and Whole Woman's Health Alliance, said it is "amazing" that the law has been passed and is ready to go into effect.

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"Texans, like everyone else in this country, should be able to count on safe medical care for abortion in their own state. No one should be forced to drive hundreds of miles or continue a pregnancy against their will, but that is which will happen unless the Supreme Court intervenes, "said Hagstrom Miller.

A group of abortion rights and activists and clinics, including Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed an urgent petition with the Supreme Court on Monday to block the law.

The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the case.

"The American people are eager to humanize our extreme and outdated abortion laws

,

" said

Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List, in a statement.

"We are with Texas and we hope that, soon, the Supreme Court will free all the states to protect the most vulnerable."

If most or all abortion services in Texas are closed, the average one-way drive to a clinic would multiply 20 times, from 12 to 248 miles (19 to 400 kilometers) according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that studies reproductive health rights.

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In April 2020, Texas had temporarily banned abortion care amid the coronavirus pandemic to help preserve hospital space and personal protective equipment for COVID-19 patients.

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During that time, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains - which includes clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Las Vegas - reported that the number of patients from Texas had multiplied by 12. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains expects a large influx of patients if the new law applies.

However, abortion rights activists warn that many women will not be able to cross state lines to terminate their pregnancy, as, for example, not all have access to a car or sufficient time off after work.

The Texas Policy Assessment Project at the University of Texas at Austin estimated that if the law goes into effect,

about 80% of Texans who want to have abortions will not be able to do so in the state

and 46% of Texans want to interrupt their

abortion.

pregnancy could be forced to have to give birth.

The ban will also "give impetus to other conservative states to pass identical laws," said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute.

"There are about 20 states that have already enacted comprehensive or early bans on abortion, and those states will use Texas as a roadmap to ban it if they can," Nash said.

Source: telemundo

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