Data shows abortions in the state fell by 60 percent in the first month since SB 8 took effect. In the same month, Planned Parenthood health centers in surrounding states saw a 1,082 percent increase in patients with Texas zip codes.
Miranda Aguirre, a Latina born and raised in the border community of El Paso, Texas, has dedicated her life to giving back to her hometown. Aguirre runs the only Planned Parenthood in the city, providing reproductive health resources to anyone who walks in through the front door.
“We all felt defeated. We knew that this basic right, that any person should have, is being limited. And in that, there's also the frustration of having somebody else tell you what you can and cannot do with your life,” said Aguirre. “Leaving El Paso, any which way you go, there's a Border Patrol checkpoint. So that's an added pressure on a lot of patients, because they're like, ‘Do I try to terminate this pregnancy, to potentially put myself at risk for deportation?’” she added.
Aguirre’s clinic provides services to Mexican residents living on the other side of the border, in Juarez.If those patients from Mexico can’t receive abortion care in El Paso — they will not be able to travel out of the state for it like others due to their immigration status. “We have patients that come to us from Juarez, Mexico — because abortion is still illegal in the city of Juarez, our sister city, and they're coming to us.
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