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. The law also required doctors performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility.Typically, most patients who get abortions in Texas are in their 20s and 30s. In 2019, 57% of the abortions were performed on patients 20 to 29 years old. About 30% were performed on patients 30 to 39 years old.More Hispanic Texans obtain abortions each year compared with any other race or ethnicity in the state.
More than half of abortions in 2020 and 2021 were by pill, in part because the COVID-19 pandemic reduced access to in-person health care. Abortion pills ordered by mail orA Texas law banning the use of the medication after seven weeks of pregnancy went into effect in December 2021. The law also makes it a crime to
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