New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona

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Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared New Mexico a “reproductive protected haven” between Arizona, to the west, and Texas, to the east. Already, she stated, New Mexico’s few abortion clinics are seeing an inflow of sufferers from exterior the state’s borders. “If you find yourself a safe-haven state,” she observes, “you place actual stress on [the] present supplier system.” Lujan Grisham spoke with David Remnick about an government order she issued—days after the Supreme Courtroom resolution in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group—to forestall the extradition of abortion suppliers, a request she stated she expects to see from Texas legislation enforcement. Dobbs places states at odds over one of the contentious problems with our time. “They’ve invited states now to combat with one another, sue one another,” Lujan Grisham stated; that is “probably the most despicable and horrible facet, frankly, of this specific resolution.”