nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/texas-is-already-creating-abortion-refugees.html
Awful. Not in the US, had no idea what a snooper's charter this is. 'Pregnant people' jars but still worth a read. Interesting comment under the article wondering if "Texas will soon experience a brain drain. I doubt intelligent college-educated women currently in their universities will want to remain there any longer than they have to." As ever, poor women who will bear the brunt, many of them WOC.
Just pause and breathe. We’re going to help, but I need you to take a breath and calm down for a moment.
Kathaleen Pittman, director of the Hope Medical Clinic for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, repeated this mantra over and over to the teary women on the other end of the phone. The calls were coming from all over Texas, where abortion is currently banned at about six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. They wanted to know if they could get an abortion in Louisiana instead.
“The phone has been ringing off the wall, patients attempting to get in,” Pittman said. But appointments were scarce. When I spoke with her on Thursday, Hope Medical Clinic was the only functioning abortion clinic in the state of Louisiana; the other two remaining clinics were closed due to power outages caused by Hurricane Ida. “Right now we are booked out three, possibly four weeks just to get in for that first visit,” Pittman said, noting that a state-mandated waiting period requires patients to come to the clinic twice. “We’re going to see women who are terminating later in the pregnancy than desired because they simply can’t get in quickly enough,” she said. Others, she feared, wouldn’t be able to get an abortion at all. “Of course it’s going to be the women who have no money,” she added. “It’s always the women without the means that suffer the most.”