ALBUQUERQUE – One of many largest abortion suppliers in Texas is planning to maneuver its operations to New Mexico and one other supplier that provides telehealth companies associated to abortion and reproductive well being care is increasing its footprint within the state.
Austin-based Entire Girl’s Well being started winding down its Texas operations after a ruling July 1 by the Texas Supreme Courtroom compelled an finish to abortions in that state. Now, the supplier needs to ascertain a brand new clinic in a New Mexico metropolis close to the state line to supply first and second trimester abortions.
Dwelling to a Democratic-led Legislature and governor, New Mexico not too long ago took an additional step to guard suppliers and sufferers from out-of-state prosecutions. It’s more likely to proceed to expertise a gradual inflow of individuals searching for abortions from neighboring states with extra restrictive abortion legal guidelines.
Entire Girl’s Well being has began a fundraising effort to assist with the prices of transferring gear and provides from Texas to New Mexico and for the acquisition of a constructing to function its new house.
“With the shuttering of our 4 Texas clinics, we do not need the monetary reserves to open in New Mexico with out neighborhood help,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Entire Girl’s Well being, stated in a press release.
Officers with Mississippi’s solely abortion clinic even have plans to relocate to southern New Mexico and the telehealth supplier Choix, based mostly in San Francisco, introduced Wednesday that it’s now licensed to function in New Mexico and plans to serve all states the place abortion care stays authorized by the tip of 2023.
New Mexico lawmakers final yr repealed a dormant 1969 statute that outlawed most abortion procedures as felonies, thus guaranteeing entry to abortion even after the federal courtroom rolled again ensures.
The state’s largest metropolis, Albuquerque, is house to certainly one of just a few impartial clinics within the nation that carry out abortions within the third trimester with out situations.
An abortion clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, is only a mile from the state line with Texas close to El Paso.