ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Abortion entry across the nation will quickly change, however not in New Mexico. As an alternative, organizations, advocates and suppliers predict a really completely different final result from the autumn of Roe v. Wade.
The trail to abortion care could lead many ladies to the Land of Enchantment.
“I’m personally against abortion,” stated Michelle Giese, a protester with 40 Days for Life. “I feel it’s evil.”
“That’s been the aim, of the anti-abortion motion, is to create a lot disgrace and stigma that individuals don’t even think about abortion as an choice,” stated Joan Lamunyon Sanford, govt director of New Mexico Spiritual Coalition for Reproductive Selection.
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Within the state of New Mexico abortion is an choice. A selection that won’t go away with the autumn of Roe v Wade.
“I simply need folks to assume twice. About what that is, what it means and what they’re doing and hopefully change some hearts and minds,” stated Wealthy Willis, a protester exterior of Deliberate Parenthood on San Mateo.
“They’ve already deeply thought-about this resolution,” stated Lamunyon Sanford. “That’s a choice between them and God.”
Although the controversy on proper or unsuitable is way from over.
The life-changing resolution to finish a being pregnant is a selection Joan Lamunyon Sanford understands.
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“I wasn’t ready to be the perfect guardian I could possibly be,” she stated. “I used to be nonetheless at school. I used to be younger and naïve, ending college was a precedence for me.”
She had an abortion in her early 20’s, in school, single.
“It was a choice that I prayed on. That I knew was proper for me,” stated Lamunyon Sanford.
Now she’s an advocate with the New Mexico Spiritual Coalition for Reproductive Selection to verify each girl has the choice to make the selection she did.
With out a federally protected proper to abortion care, girls will flip to New Mexico for that selection.
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Dr. Lisa Hofler is with the UNM Middle for Reproductive Well being.
“We’ve seen what occurs when a neighbor prohibits this care,” stated Dr. Hofler. “Now we have people calling us from Texas, who’re excessive threat docs, who say ‘this being pregnant, their issues are in order that it’s not protected for them to proceed the being pregnant’ or ‘it’s not proper for them,’ or ‘their threat of dying is simply too excessive’ they want specialty care as effectively.”
They’ve seen a 50% spike in sufferers since Texas banned abortion after six weeks. Adrienne Mansanares is president and CEO of Deliberate Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, the place there’s a two week watch for abortion companies. She expects demand can be overwhelming.
“These states which have stated they’re going to, go darkish, that’s the place the projection of about 7,000 sufferers coming from Texas and surrounding states come from,” stated Mansanares.
Examine the projection of seven,000 girls to the 2739 abortions carried out at clinics in New Mexico in 2020 – the newest knowledge out there from the New Mexico Division of Well being.
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That doesn’t embody drugs used to induce abortion. That’s a telehealth choice that’s changing into extra frequent.
“We noticed a really regular enhance the place we’re seeing nearly 4 occasions as many individuals as we noticed a 12 months in the past,” stated Lamunyon Sanford. Lamunyon Sanford’s group units apart cash to assist folks make the journey to New Mexico.
“A spot to sleep, a meal to eat, non secular assist, companionship. Our volunteers decide folks up on the airport in any respect hours, take them to their appointments,” she stated.
Funding she stated they’ll want extra of. Albuquerque Metropolis Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn has earmarked $250,000 within the 2022 metropolis price range for Deliberate Parenthood operations – companies she calls important.
“I do consider it as one thing that’s in danger on this nation proper now. Something we will try this no 1, guarantee that Deliberate Parenthood has the funds they should present these companies, but in addition, equally essential to ship the message that Albuquerque is a protected haven,” stated Fiebelkorn.
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“When an individual doesn’t wish to be pregnant, for no matter purpose, they’ll undergo no matter measure it makes, it takes, to not be pregnant,” stated Mansanares.
“We noticed people driving 13 and 14 hours, you understand, to take a capsule and drive again,” stated Dr. Hofler.
New Mexico state Sen. Linda Lopez worries about inequitable entry.
“Abortions at all times occur and can proceed. Having a legislation in place will not be going to cease. It’s additionally a query of who has entry. These girls and individuals who’ve extra money can entry the companies,” stated Sen. Linda Lopez.
Dr. Hofler stated many of the girls they serve, who’re in search of abortion, have already got kids, and plenty of of them reside under the poverty line. For a single individual that’s round $13,590 a 12 months.
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That’s roughly the identical quantity the USDA estimates is the price of elevating a baby per 12 months.
Based on the CDC, near 93% of abortions are within the first trimester, and 58% of these girls are ending being pregnant for the primary time.
New Mexico decriminalized abortion final 12 months, however Sen. Lopez stated some lawmakers wish to do extra.
“I feel we have to step again and look and see what we will do to assist our girls, particularly in locations they historically don’t have entry to a clinic,” stated Sen. Lopez.
For now, she stated New Mexico is a protected haven, for a protected choice, she says the state will stand behind.
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“If I might return, that’s one factor I’d say I do remorse,” stated a New Mexico mom, Sarah Wasson.
However there may be one other various to abortion. It’s one Wasson found after her personal abortion years in the past.
“Abortion is an finish. That’s it. It’s an finish. It’s executed. It’s ultimate. You may’t return,” she stated.
She’s transferring ahead, sharing her story of life – the opposite selection of adoption.
So what choices do girls have in New Mexico on the subject of adoption? We’re taking a more in-depth have a look at that in our subsequent report Saturday at 6 p.m.
The toy drive is now underway. Here is how you can help.
SANTA FE, N.M. — The City of Santa Fe launched its Northern New Mexico Toy Drive last week with the goal of serving around 8,000 children.
According to the city, that is how many children are in-need. Now through Dec. 15, you can drop off donations at several locations (see below).
The toy drive will benefit more than 40 organizations and monetary donations will go toward buying gifts locally.
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Organizers are also hosting an ugly sweater fundraiser Dec. 6 at the Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds will go toward the toy drive.
The Northern New Mexico Toy Drive started 15 years ago with less than 100 children and quickly ballooned into what it is today.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tru Washington scored 19 points as New Mexico beat Texas Southern 99-68 on Sunday night.
Washington added 10 rebounds and four steals for the Lobos (5-1). Mustapha Amzil scored 18 points, shooting 6 for 15 (2 for 6 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line. Filip Borovicanin finished 5 of 6 from the field to finish with 11 points.
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Kavion McClain led the way for the Tigers (0-5) with 15 points and six assists. Jaylen Wysinger added 12 points for Texas Southern. Zaire Hayes finished with 10 points.
New Mexico took the lead with 1:13 remaining in the first half and did not give it up. Washington led their team in scoring with eight points in the first half to help put them up 38-31 at the break. New Mexico extended its lead to 77-48 during the second half, fueled by an 11-0 scoring run. Borovicanin scored a team-high 11 points in the second half as their team closed out the win.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
The city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has reached a $20 million settlement with the family of a grandmother fatally shot by a police officer last year, according to The Associated Press and local media.
Felipe Hernandez, then working for the Las Cruces Police Department, fatally shot Teresa Gomez, 45, in her car in October 2023. Her family filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city, the police chief, and three members of the police force.
The settlement is the city’s largest agreement in a civil lawsuit, according to CNN affiliate KFOX14. The parties reached a settlement on November 7, according to a court filing. CNN has reached out to the city and an attorney representing the Gomez family for comment.
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“This settlement should be understood as a statement of the City’s profound feeling of loss for the death of Gomez and of the City’s condolences to her family,” the city of Las Cruces said in a news release sent Friday, according to AP.
Hernandez, who was fired from the police department months after the shooting, faces a second-degree murder charge, court records show. He has pleaded not guilty. His trial is scheduled to begin June 2. CNN has reached out to Hernandez’s attorney for comment.
Gomez was sitting in her car when Hernandez accused her and her passenger of trespassing, footage from the officer’s body-worn camera shows. He then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to investigate, the footage shows.
After Hernandez approached Gomez on a bicycle as she sat in her car, Gomez told him she had been visiting someone at the address and said she was looking for her misplaced keys, the body-camera footage shows. Gomez and the officer discussed why she and the passenger were parked outside a public housing complex – a place Hernandez said the passenger was not supposed to be. Gomez said multiple times she was unaware of any visitor rules, the video shows.
After Hernandez repeatedly asked Gomez to leave her car, Gomez stood outside it for a while, answering some of the officer’s questions, the video shows. Her passenger was never asked to get out or questioned in a similar way.
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The grandmother eventually found her car keys and, with the officer’s permission, sat back in the driver’s seat, according to the video and the lawsuit.
Half a minute later, she engaged the engine and, with her car door still open, shifted into reverse, pulled back, then put the car into drive, the video shows.
Hernandez shouted “stop!” three times, then fired his gun several times, the video shows.
The lawsuit alleges Gomez presented “no threat of any physical injury to Hernandez or anyone else” and Hernandez “left her to bleed out in her car as he turned away from her gasping body to retrieve his bicycle and flashlight.”
The suit claims Las Cruces “has adopted a de facto policy of indifference to the escalation of encounters between its officers and the public”and it “it allows officers to use deadly force in situations in which there is no threat of great bodily harm or death posed by the subject receiving deadly force.”
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The complaint also alleges city employees disproportionately use excessive force against people of color – like Gomez, who was Hispanic.
Gomez’s sister, Angela Lozano-Gutierrez, previously told CNN the video of her mother’s encounter with Hernandez was “shocking.”
“We may never get the apology we need,” Lozano-Gutierrez said. “We’re just trying to cling to each other, and we just keep telling ourselves: She would want us to continue to live to be happy.”
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