New Mexico
Abortion provider at center of Dobbs case plans to open New Mexico clinic
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A number of hundred pro-life advocates have been gathered for a pro-life rally in Las Cruces the night of July 19 when Mark Cavaliere, govt director of the Southwest Coalition for Life, made a shock announcement.
He mentioned the pro-life group had simply leased property subsequent door to an abortion clinic to be opened by the Mississippi abortion supplier that was on the middle of the Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group case addressed by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.
In a June 24 ruling within the case, the excessive courtroom overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade choice and returned abortion to the states to manage.
“Our nation has taken an enormous leap ahead with the overturn of Roe,” acknowledged Cavaliere, “however New Mexico has taken a blow. We’re going from having 5 abortion services within the state to triple, possibly even quadruple, that quantity. In our tradition, every thing about ladies has been vilified.”
“We have to work to finish abortion, however we’ve to do extra to revive the sanctity of womanhood,” he mentioned.
Cavaliere invited the group to “present all of the well being care companies that organizations like Deliberate Parenthood faux to do. … Let’s truly step up and do extra to offer life-affirming well being care.”
He mentioned Las Cruces has grow to be “the epicenter of post-Roe America” with the Mississippi abortion supplier coming “to do surgical abortions, to the second and probably third trimester.”
“If ever there was a spot to reply to a problem like we’re dealing with, it’s Las Cruces, the Metropolis of the Crosses,” he added. “We’ve seen what God can do. If ever there was a folks to stand up and say that ladies deserve higher that abortion and we’re going to be those to provide them higher — it’s the folks right here.”
The brand new Guiding Star well being middle, as it is going to be referred to as, will present ladies with fertility care, being pregnant and childbirth, lactation and household life companies. Solely a driveway will separate it from the deliberate abortion clinic.
Terri Herring, president, of Select Life Mississippi in Jackson, mentioned the proprietor of Jackson Ladies’s Well being, Diane Derzis shut down her “pink home” of abortion after she misplaced her lawsuit towards Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks and determined to return to Las Cruces and open a brand new abortion facility.
Within the Dobbs ruling, the excessive courtroom upheld the state’s ban in a 6-3 vote; a 5-4 vote overturned Roe.
Herring mentioned Derzis had beforehand been run out of Birmingham, Alabama, and he or she urged the group to “free New Mexico from being a refuge for abortion.”
Leah Jacobson, founder and CEO of the Nationwide Guiding Star Challenge, famous that is the primary time that one of many pro-life community’s facilities has opened up proper subsequent to an abortion supplier.
Jacobson and Guiding Star give attention to addressing the basis causes that drive ladies to decide on abortion.
“We have to take heed to the voices of girls which can be feeling that abortion is their most suitable choice,” Jacobson mentioned as she shared statistics of why ladies search abortions. “Being pregnant is just not a illness! There’s nothing wholesome about destroying a wonderfully functioning feminine physique.”
New Mexico state Sen. David Gallegos reminded rally contributors that “the vital factor is that the governor desires to make New Mexico an abortion vacation spot.”
On June 27, New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, signed an govt order to safeguard abortion entry and shield the state’s medical suppliers from makes an attempt at authorized retribution for offering abortions.
In a tweet June 24 posted shortly after the Supreme Courtroom issued its Dobbs ruling, Lujan Grisham mentioned: “I’ll proceed to battle for the correct to a protected, authorized abortion in New Mexico and stand as a brick wall towards those that search to punish ladies and their docs for searching for care.”
Gallegos criticized the shortage of parental discover, reminding the group that their minor daughters can’t be given an aspirin with out parental permission, but these younger women can have an abortion carried out on them with out their mother and father ever being advised.
He additionally emphasised the significance of voting pro-life.
Dominique Davis, govt director of Challenge Defending Life in Albuquerque, advised rallygoers that New Mexico’s pro-life being pregnant care facilities at present outnumber abortion services three to 1. However the abortion business is pouring thousands and thousands of {dollars} to open extra abortion services within the state, she mentioned.
Davis mentioned Lujan Grisham helps abortion for any cause by way of all 9 months of being pregnant, and he or she urged the group to assist construct a “tradition of life within the Land of Enchantment.”
Mary Solorza, president of College students for Life at New Mexico State College, roused the group, declaring that she and her friends are dedicated to creating their campus pregnancy- and parent-friendly.
“We’re the post-Roe era, ladies deserve higher than abortion!” Solorza mentioned.
Father Alejandro Reyes, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Coronary heart of Mary in Las Cruces, opened the rally with prayer and his personal testimony.
He shared how his mom had been pressured to abort him by his father, however regardless of pressures and challenges, she selected life.
At the moment, the priest mentioned, he serves as “a voice to the unvoiced, the unborn youngsters liable to abortion.”
New Mexico
Survey finds more than half of New Mexicans have experienced sexual violence • Source New Mexico
More than half of all New Mexicans have been sexually assaulted or raped at some point in their life, and 40% have been the victim of some kind of sexual violence while in New Mexico in the past year, according to a report published Wednesday.
Researchers from the Catherine Cutler Institute at the University of Southern Maine set out to understand how often people in New Mexico become victims of sexual violence, how often they report it and how often they seek help.
They surveyed 1,272 people between September 2023 and June 2024, and 54% of the people who responded said they had either been raped or sexually assaulted within their lifetime. “This rate translates to more than 1.1 million New Mexico residents,” the authors wrote.
The findings mark the first new New Mexico sexual violence crime victimization survey data in nearly two decades, the authors wrote. The last one was conducted between 2005 and 2006.
Researchers collected the data for the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, a nonprofit that provides technical assistance to more than 60 sexual assault service providers, sexual assault nurse examiners, child advocacy centers and community mental health centers.
In an interview with Source, Alexandria Taylor, the coalition’s executive director, said she thinks a lack of funding is the primary explanation for why it’s been so long since the last survey.
Taylor said the findings validate and quantify what she has known anecdotally for years: sexual assault is present in many people’s lives.
“All of our service providers, whether it’s our substance use treatment centers, our schools, our places of employment — even our places of incarceration — they’re all serving survivors of sexual assault,” she said.
Rachel Cox, the coalition’s deputy director of programs, told Source she was surprised the report gave her some hope they can actually address the prevalence of sexual assault, because it shows neither victims nor perpetrators of sexual violence are exceptional.
“We’re really talking about something that vicariously impacts everyone in New Mexico,” she said.
While counts of sexual violence victims commonly derived from service organizations and police reports are informative, they are also “certainly undercounts,” the report states.
Researchers asked New Mexicans about their experiences with four kinds of sexual violence: stalking, rape, sexual assault and domestic violence. Forty percent said they had been the victim of at least one of these crimes within the last 12 months while they were in New Mexico.
The research was funded by the Crime Victims Reparation Commission, a state agency that helps crime victims recover losses resulting from being victimized, and provides federal grants to other organizations serving them.
In a news release attached to the report, the coalition outlined its priorities for the upcoming legislative session to boost support for survivors and evidence-based prevention education.
The group plans to ask the Legislature to set aside $3 million to the Department of Health for prevention initiatives, $2 million to the Health Care Authority for medical and counseling needs, and $2 million to the Crime Victims Reparation Commission for providers and the New Mexico Sexual Assault Helpline.
The report also noted that 68% of victims of sexual assault and 75% of victims of rape did not seek support.
State law prohibits reparations to people victimized in prison
As researchers conducted the survey, they also sought to find disparities between demographic groups.
For example, people who have been incarcerated have the highest overall rate of victimization: 69%. They were also more likely to have been the victim of stalking than any other group.
Formerly incarcerated New Mexicans were also less likely to seek victim services, and more likely to have experienced “significant problems” with their job or schoolwork as a result of being victimized, the researchers found.
The group with the next highest rate of victimization was homeless people, at 68%.
Taylor said people who are most systemically impacted either have experienced sexual violence or are at greater risk of experiencing it. Cox said incarcerated and unhoused people can be some of the most invisible in society.
The findings are notable, in part, because New Mexico law does not allow reparations to people who were victimized while they were incarcerated. Taylor said it can’t be ignored that people who do harm and end up incarcerated have also themselves experienced harm and need healing.
“That’s where we have to use what we know from the individual level to impact things at the policy level,” she said.
Transgender or nonbinary people were more likely than cisgender people to have been raped, and Black respondents were more likely than other races to have been raped.
Perpetrators of rape were most commonly identified as casual acquaintances of the victims, at 34%; followed by a former partner or spouse, 30%; a current partner or spouse, 23%, and finally a stranger, 22%.
A winter weather advisory remains in effect until Friday morning for a large portion of southern New Mexico. See the latest conditions at KOB.com/Weather.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Wednesday started snowy for some but just downright chilly for everyone in New Mexico as a blast of winter weather continues.
A winter weather advisory is in effect until Friday at 5 a.m. for swathes of southern New Mexico. In the advisory area, three inches of snow and slick roads are expected.
Across the state, the balmiest temperature was 33° in Silver City but we are going to warm up soon.
Meteorologist Kira Miner shares all the details in her full forecast in the video above.
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