Abortion provider Alan Braid is opening new clinics in Illinois and New Mexico and shuttering his two clinics in Oklahoma and Texas, where abortion has been banned in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Alan Braid, who defied the Texas abortion ban last fall, selected locations most accessible to patients who can no longer access the procedure in their home states. One of his clinics, in Albuquerque will be located near a major airport, while the other, in Carbondale, Ill., will open 24 miles from Illinois’ southern border, within striking distance of the vast abortion deserts spreading throughout the Southeast and Midwest.
“They will be forced into carrying their pregnancy to term,” he said. “Or they will seek other means that are not safe, and we’ll see a return to the ’60s and ’70s when women died.” Local antiabortion activists say they’re thrilled Texas patients will no longer have easy access to Braid’s clinic.
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