Texas' new abortion law will probably lead to an increase in patients carrying unwanted pregnancies to term, abortion-rights advocates and providers say. Many will feel the financial and health impacts of being turned away from a clinic for years to come.
such as anxiety, depression and low self-esteem in the months after abortion denial and may cause life-threatening physical health outcomes that last years.
Before the law took effect, Dr. Bhavik Kumar, a staff physician at Planned Parenthood Center for Choice in Houston, typically saw 20 to 30 abortion care patients a day. On Sept. 1, he saw only six, and half were past the new legal limit and had to be turned away."The folks that will suffer are going to be low-income folks that already have poor access to health care, and people of color, especially Black women," he said.
Abortion-rights supporters gather to protest Texas Senate Bill 8 in front of Edinburg City Hall on Sept. 1, in Edinburg, Texas.The physical and mental toll of childbirth plays a role in those adverse health outcomes, said Dr. Nisha Verma, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health and an OB-GYN who provides abortion care in the Washington, D.C., area. Those who carry to term could face excessive bleeding during delivery, postpartum depression, gestational diabetes and hypertension.
"When we're thinking about people's health care, their pregnancies and their lives, every person is different, and no law like [S.B. 8] can take each unique situation into account," Verma said. Carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term is far riskier to someone's physical health than having an abortion. About 700 people in the United States die each year as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications, according to the
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