“Texas is essentially a pre-Roe world now'
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In the wake of SB 8, which went into effect on Wednesday, many clinics in Texas are still providing abortions for patients up to six weeks pregnant, or before embryonic cardiac activity can be detected. Everyone else — estimated to be about 85 percent of all abortion patients — is now being referred out of state. As a result, clinics in Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas are being inundated with a surge of pregnant people who are racing against the clock for care.
At Trust Women’s clinic in Oklahoma City, which is one of the closest abortion clinics for people in north Texas, abortion appointments are already being booked three weeks into September, just like at Hope Medical Clinic in Louisiana. “All of our doctors fly in from other states,” explained Zack Gingrich-Gaylord, communications director for Trust Women.
“It sounds very easy — oh well you can’t get it in Texas, just go to Oklahoma, New Mexico, but the people that we see — that hourly wage patient, the single mom, the people that don’t have the means to travel — it’s impossible for them,” he said. “That’s like saying well, just hop on a plane and, you know, go to France. It’s beautiful there, you can get an abortion and then take a walk down the Champs-Élysées.
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