'We had no way of predicting what right-wing actors would do in response to this law becoming enforceable,' Planned Parenthood South Texas' president said.
The law prohibits doctors from performing an abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That's usually around six weeks into a pregnancy—when most women aren't even aware that they're pregnant yet.
Planned Parenthood South Texas, a regional affiliate of the national Planned Parenthood organization, has stopped providing legal abortions in three of its clinics in the San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley area,Jeffrey Hons, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood South Texas, told the publication that the decision to stop abortion care in his clinics was made before the law went into effect on September 1.
Some Planned Parenthood reproductive health clinics in Texas have stopped providing legal abortions since the state passed its stringent new anti-abortion law. In this photo, a woman stands with her child in a stroller at an anti-abortion rally outside a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Center on June 4, 2019.
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