Abortion Provider Whole Women’s Health Plans to Move to New Mexico

The Complete Girls’s Well being Group, certainly one of Texas’s greatest impartial abortion suppliers, plans to relocate to a border metropolis in New Mexico. 

This transfer comes after the Texas Supreme Court docket dominated in favor of a 1925 Texas legislation which banned all abortions within the state with no exceptions and punished suppliers with potential imprisonment. 

On Thursday, July 7, WWH closed its 4 clinics in Austin, Fort Value, McAllen, and McKinney, Texas, and began to wind down operations. 

The group began a GoFundMe account for the general public to assist the transfer. 

Docs within the clinic will concentrate on offering 1st and 2nd-trimester abortions and persevering with to offer digital providers for sufferers in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and extra. 

Within the 5 days since going dwell, the WWH fund has reached over $150,000 of the $750,000 objective. 

“WWH has served Texans for almost 20 years, and our love for Texans runs deep. Even when the courts and the politicians have turned their backs on Texans, we by no means will,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, President, and CEO of Complete Lady’s Well being and Complete Lady’s Well being Alliance stated. 

    Based on the Guttmacher Institute, abortions in New Mexico are accessible and legally protected with no restrictions like obligatory ready intervals or parental involvement.

    In February 2021, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a invoice to guard a pregnant individual’s proper to an abortion. 

    However since Texas’ six-week abortion ban, New Mexico clinics have already seen an inflow of Texas sufferers, with nearly all of the sufferers they see coming from Texas, in keeping with abortion suppliers on the College of New Mexico Middle for Reproductive Rights. 

    In an electronic mail trade with the Sign, Jackie Dilworth, director of selling and communications at WWH, wrote the group is seeking to relocate as quickly as potential however continues to be within the strategy of discovering an excellent metropolis and buying a constructing. 

    Dilworth additionally wrote that WWH is seeking to relocate to the southeastern area of New Mexico — as near the Texas border as potential. 

    Nonetheless, in keeping with Dilworth, WWH continues to be combating Texas’s dangerous legal guidelines regardless of the Texas Supreme Court docket’s most up-to-date ruling. 

New Mexico and Louisiana are the one two border states that also supply and permit abortion providers below present state legal guidelines. 

On June 27, a Louisiana courtroom blocked the state’s set off legislation from taking impact, following Roe’s reversal, which was set to ban all abortions in Lousiana with no exceptions. 

Relying on how the Lousiana courtroom guidelines in a preliminary injunction listening to on July 8, Lousiana might enact an outright ban on abortions leaving New Mexico as the one southern choice for Texas pregnant individuals.