And so America begins to return back to pre-Roe vs Wade days almost 50 years later….
Progress???
Planned Parenthood clinics have seen dramatic increases in the number ofpeople from Texas going out of state to seek abortions since the Texas six-week abortion ban took effect, the group says.
The organization says that clinics in neighboring states saw a surge in patients with Texas zip codes. In Oklahoma, Planned Parenthood saw a 133% increase in patients from Texas. In New Mexico, the organization saw a 67% jump in patients from the Lone Star State.
Doris Dixon, director of Patient Access at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, says the impact of the Texas law is being felt nationwide.
“We have other providers from out of town saying they are overwhelmed with our Texas patients,” she said. “And so now our Texas patients are waiting two and three weeks just to get even out of town because those schedules are filling up out of town.”
Planned Parenthood clinics in New Mexico have a 19-day waiting period for an abortion appointment. In Nevada, the wait is 17 days, the group says. And in Colorado, there is a waiting period of between seven and 16 days.
The Supreme Court, which allowed the Texas law to take effect September 1, will hear a case on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion law in December, a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade precedent that legalized abortion nationwide.
In a new report Friday, Planned Parenthood and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda warn that nearly 50% of women of reproductive age in the United States — at least 36 million women in 26 states — could lose access to legal abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned….