A new study showed abortions decreased more than 30% in the six months after Texas Senate Bill 8 went into effect in September 2021. | via keranews
, where Texans traveled to find abortion care earlier this year, followed suit. White says people have to travel to places like New Mexico and Colorado now.
“This is putting abortion care even further out of reach,” she said. “For a lot of people living in some of these major metropolitan areas of Texas, the nearest clinic is at least 300 miles, sometimes 600 miles, one-way.” White hopes people consider the impact of such legislation as other states decide on the future of abortion access.
“What we can see from this data is that placing those kinds of restrictions on essential reproductive health care is certainly not going to prevent people from needing abortion care, and that many people are going to pursue other ways to try to get that care,” she said., in addition to services and support they need when they get home or decide to continue their pregnancy because they’re unable to travel.
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