Posted on Jun 30, 2022
After a reprieve, a Louisiana clinic resumes abortions for anxious patients
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After days of uncertainty, a young mother from a small town in Texas finally made it to Shreveport, La., as the clinic there was re-opening for abortions on Tuesday.
"I was really scared. I thought I was going to have to travel 12 hours to Albuquerque," says J, who only gave her first initial for privacy reasons.
After the Supreme Court decision last week overturning Roe v. Wade, J feared she wouldn't be able to keep her appointment at the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, one of Louisiana's three clinics that offers abortions, as Louisiana moved to enforce its abortion bans. She already knew she couldn't get a legal procedure at home in Texas, under a state law that took effect in September, banning most abortions after about six weeks.
New Mexico would have been the next-closest option — but that would mean a day-long drive with her husband and three young boys. J, who's 27, was relieved when she learned that Hope Medical Group would be able to resume services, after reproductive rights lawyers won a reprieve in state court, allowing abortions to continue at least for now.
After days of uncertainty, a young mother from a small town in Texas finally made it to Shreveport, La., as the clinic there was re-opening for abortions on Tuesday.
"I was really scared. I thought I was going to have to travel 12 hours to Albuquerque," says J, who only gave her first initial for privacy reasons.
After the Supreme Court decision last week overturning Roe v. Wade, J feared she wouldn't be able to keep her appointment at the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, one of Louisiana's three clinics that offers abortions, as Louisiana moved to enforce its abortion bans. She already knew she couldn't get a legal procedure at home in Texas, under a state law that took effect in September, banning most abortions after about six weeks.
New Mexico would have been the next-closest option — but that would mean a day-long drive with her husband and three young boys. J, who's 27, was relieved when she learned that Hope Medical Group would be able to resume services, after reproductive rights lawyers won a reprieve in state court, allowing abortions to continue at least for now.
After a reprieve, a Louisiana clinic resumes abortions for anxious patients
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Good for her but she is lucky. Think about this for a second, married, three kids and for whatever reason became pregnant. Family made a decision that an abortion was their best choice and were able to get one. Now think anout all the states in the process of making it illegal with contraception apparently next on their radical list of things to ban.
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The extreme right just doesn't get it. Abortions will not stop. They will not win this fight for bodily rights.
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